How to integrate websocket with emberjs?

ember.js, javascript, ruby-on-rails-3, websocket

Solution

You have to implement a DS.Adapter that understands how to handle WebSockets. Here is an simple example:

var SOCKET      = 'ws://localhost:9090/some-websocket';

var ID          = 'uuid';

var FIND        = 'find';
var FIND_MANY   = 'findMany';
var FIND_QUERY  = 'findQuery';
var FIND_ALL    = 'findAll';

/**
* Implementation of WebSocket for DS.Store
*/
App.Store = DS.Store.extend({

    revision: 4,

    adapter: DS.Adapter.create({

        socket: undefined,

        requests: undefined,

        send: function(action, type, data, result) {
            /* Specific to your web socket server side implementation */
            var request = {
                "uuid": generateUuid(),
                "action": action,
                "type": type.toString().substr(1),
                "data": data
            };
            this.socket.send(JSON.stringify(request));
            /* So I have access to the original request upon a response from the server */
            this.get('requests')[request.uuid] = request;
            return request;
        },

        find: function (store, type, id) {
            this.send(FIND, type, id);
        },

        findMany: function (store, type, ids, query) {
            this.send(FIND_MANY, type, ids);
        },

        findQuery: function (store, type, query, modelArray) {
            this.send(FIND_QUERY, type, query, modelArray).modelArray = modelArray;
        },

        findAll: function (store, type) {
            this.send(FIND_ALL, type);
        },

        /* Also implement:
         * createRecord & createRecords
         * updateRecord & updateRecords
         * deleteRecord & deleteRecords
         * commit & rollback
         */

        init: function () {

            var context = this;

            this.set('requests', {});

            var ws = new WebSocket(SOCKET);

            ws.onopen = function () {

            };

            ws.onmessage = function(event) {
                var response = JSON.parse(event.data);
                var request = context.get('requests')[response.uuid];

                switch (request.action) {
                    case FIND:
                        App.store.load(type, response.data[0]);
                        break;
                    case FIND_MANY:
                        App.store.loadMany(type, response.data);
                        break;
                    case FIND_QUERY:
                        request.modelArray.load(response.data);
                        break;
                    case FIND_ALL:
                        App.store.loadMany(type, response.data);
                        break;
                    default:
                        throw('Unknown Request: ' + request.action);
                }

                /* Cleanup */
                context.get('requests')[response.uuid] = undefined;
            };

            ws.onclose = function () {

            };

            this.set('socket', ws);
        }

    });
});

Problem

I'm learning and building emberjs app with rails. In this app, I want the data to be pushed rather than polled to the client app. For.e.g. the following snippet at http://awardwinningfjords.com/2011/12/27/emberjs-collections.html ``` // Setup a global namespace for our code. Twitter = Em.Application.create({ // When everything is loaded. ready: function() { // Start polling Twitter setInterval(function() { Twitter.searchResults.refresh(); }, 2000); // The default search is empty, let's find some cats. Twitter.searchResults.set("query", "cats"); // Call the superclass's `ready` method. this._super(); } }); ``` It polls twitter API, but my question is how to make an EmberJS app that uses a WebSocket connection to update its state?

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