@element-ts/chlorine

An abstracted, async, easy to use, type-safe function invocation event handler framework.

Example

The below example is actually from a test for this package. You can see how to create a commanded object and in the test example a simple handler is provided.

interface SideACommands extends CLRegistryStructure<SideACommands> {
	increment: {
		param: number;
		return: number;
	};
}

interface SideBCommands extends CLRegistryStructure<SideBCommands> {
	decrement: {
		param: number;
		return: number;
	};
}

class SideA extends ClCommander<SideACommands, SideBCommands, number> {

	public handler: ((packet: string) => Promise<void>) | undefined;

	public constructor() {

		super(1337);

	}

	protected async send(packet: string): Promise<void> {

		if (this.handler) await this.handler(packet);

	}

}

class SideB extends ClCommander<SideBCommands, SideACommands, number> {

	public handler: ((packet: string) => Promise<void>) | undefined;

	public constructor() {

		super(1337);

	}

	protected async send(packet: string): Promise<void> {

		if (this.handler) await this.handler(packet);

	}

}

test("General", async () => {

	const a = new SideA();
	const b = new SideB();

	a.handler = (packet => b.receive(packet));
	b.handler = (packet => a.receive(packet));

	a.implement("increment", async num => num + 1);
	b.implement("decrement", async num => num - 1);

	const testSize = 100;

	let numA = 0;
	let numB = testSize;

	for (let i: number = 0; i < testSize; i++) {
		numA = await b.invoke("increment", numA);
		numB = await a.invoke("decrement", numB);
	}

	expect(numA).toEqual(testSize);
	expect(numB).toEqual(0);

});

Basics

ClCommander

The ClCommander is the main thing you will interface with. It is an abstract class, again this is all written in TypeScript. Extend this class and you will only have to do two things. Supply a referencer to the super() call and implement the abstract send(packet: string): Promise<void> method. You can attach anything you need to your class and just handle sending data out. When you get data in, call the protected method receive(packet: string): Promise<void>. The commander will handle everything else for you.

There are three generic types. LC stands for "local commands", RC stands for "remote commands", and R stands for "referencer". A commander implements its own local commands, invokes its remote commands and passes the referencer to itself when implementing commands. This can be useful to pass the socket or id so it is always available when implementing commands.

ClMessageManager

The message manager is a class used to store messages and generate unique ids for them. Once a command is invoked and the response is received, the handler in the message manager is given back.

ClRegistry

The registry handles what commands are implemented on one side.