jquery.WebSocket

jquery.WebSocket enables WebSocket support for all Browsers. In older Browsers the WebSocket is emulated by using AJAX Long Polling as fallback. But all instances of WebSocket providing the same interface and the same events! So no need to worry about writing application code based on WebSockets and it's events like onmessage, onclose ...

One simple interface $.WebSocket(url, protocol, options); thats it. The same interface as current native WebSocket implementation. The same native events (onopen, onmessage, onerror, onclose) + custom event onsend.

But jquery.WebSockets adds some nice features:

[x] Multiplexing - Use a single socket connection and as many logical pipes within as your browser supports. All these pipes are emulated WebSockets also with the same API + same events! Use each pipe as WebSocket! But this requires you to implement the protocol on this level of communication The data is en- + decoded in a special way to make multiplexing possible

[x] Interface for adding protocol to manipulate data before they are send and right after they arrive before event onmessage is fired!

example:

// The WebSocket-Object (with resource + fallback)
var ws = $.WebSocket ('ws://127.0.0.1:9300', null, {http: 'http://127.0.0.1:81/Lab/Websocket/Data/poll.php'});                                              

// WebSocket onerror event triggered also in fallback
ws.onerror = function (e) {
    console.log ('Error with WebSocket uid: ' + e.target.uid);                                                                                              
};                                                                                                                                                          

/**
 * demonstrate multiplexing
 */
var pipe1;                                                                                                                                                  

// if connection is opened => start opening a pipe (multiplexing)
ws.onopen = function () {
    //
    pipe1 = ws.registerPipe ('user/all', null, {
        onopen: function () {
            console.log ('pipe1 (' + this.uid + ') connected!');                                                                                            
        },
        onmessage: function (e) {
            console.log ('< pipe1 : ' + e.data);                                                                                                            
        },
        onerror: function (e) {
            console.log ('< pipe1 error : ' + e.data);                                                                                                      
        },
        onclose: function () {
            console.log ('pipe1 (' + pipe.uid + ') connection closed!');                                                                                    
        }
    });                                                                                                                                                     
};