Add support to 'scp' for Buffers

README.md

@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ client.scp('file.txt', {
 }, function(err) {})
 ```
 
+Copy a [`Buffer`](https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html) to the server:
+
+```js
+var buffer = new Buffer('Hello World\n');
+
+client.scp(buffer, 'admin:[email protected]:port:/home/admin/', function(err) {
+});
+```
+
 Copy a file to the server and rename it:
 
 ```js

lib/scp.js

@@ -73,6 +73,20 @@ function cp2remote(client, src, dest, callback) {
   }
 }
 
+function cpBufferToRemote(client, buffer, dest, callback) {
+  var remote = client.parse(dest);
+
+  client.write({
+    destination: remote.path,
+    content: buffer
+  }, function(err) {
+    client.on('close', function closeHandler() {
+      callback(err);
+      client.removeListener('close', closeHandler);
+    });
+    client.close();
+  });
+}
 
 function cp2local(client, src, dest, callback) {
   var remote = client.parse(src);
@@ -100,6 +114,8 @@ exports.scp = function(src, dest, client, callback) {
   var parsed = client.parse(src);
   if (parsed.host && parsed.path) {
     cp2local(client, parsed, dest, callback);
+  } else if (Buffer.isBuffer(src)) {
+    cpBufferToRemote(client, src, dest, callback);
   } else {
     cp2remote(client, src, dest, callback);
   }

test/client.test.js

@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ describe('Client', function() {
   });
 
 
+  it('returns non-string objects ', function() {
+    var stringBuffer = new Buffer('1234'),
+        arrayBuffer = new Buffer([ '1', '2', '3', '4' ]),
+        obj = { username: 'admin', host: 'example.com' };
+
+    expect(client.parse(false)).to.equal(false);
+    expect(client.parse(42)).to.equal(42);
+    expect(client.parse(stringBuffer)).to.equal(stringBuffer);
+    expect(client.parse(arrayBuffer)).to.equal(arrayBuffer);
+    expect(client.parse(obj)).to.equal(obj);
+  });
+
 });
 
 describe('when calling from windows', function() {