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+""" File contains endpoint for computational streaming"""
+import os
+from flask import current_app
+from flask import jsonify
+from flask import Blueprint
+from flask import request
+
+streaming = Blueprint("stream", __name__)
+
+
+@streaming.route("/<identifier>",  methods=["GET"])
+def stream(identifier):
+    """ This endpoint streams stdout from a file.
+    It expects the identifier to be the filename
+    in the TMPDIR created at the main computation
+    endpoint see example api/rqtl."""
+    output_file = os.path.join(current_app.config.get("TMPDIR"),
+                               f"{identifier}.txt")
+    seek_position = int(request.args.get("peak", 0))
+    with open(output_file, encoding="utf-8") as file_handler:
+        # read from the last  read position default to 0
+        file_handler.seek(seek_position)
+        results = {"data": file_handler.readlines(),
+                   "run_id": identifier,
+                   "pointer": file_handler.tell()}
+        return jsonify(results)