ObjC Client

[Jack Watson-Hamblin]

Does anybody know of an ObjC client?

If not, is there any documentation on how the functions and variables
are serialized and unserialized?

[Darshan Shankar]

There is no ObjC client yet, but it's on the roadmap - expect it late Summer.

Socket.io takes care of serialization and deserialization [we're built on top of Socket.io] so take a look at the Socket.io docs.

Darshan

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Darshan Shankar

www.nowjs.com

[Sridatta Thatipamala]

We have a particular message format that we use to represent remote
function calls and variables. (This is not done by socket.io). We
don't have that outlined in our documentation, but I'll post that
format here if you would like.

[dxgriffiths]

Sure, I'd be interested in seeing that...

[Sridatta Thatipamala]

https://github.com/Flotype/now/wiki/Wire-Format
(This is a work in progress)

[Jack Watson-Hamblin]

Thanks for this.

I'm going to start working on the ObjC client. I'll post the repo on
github here if anyone is keen on helping.

I've seen NowJS popping up in a lot of blogs recently, one was even
suggesting "the next twitter or facebook" would be using it. I agree
it's pretty powerful stuff, maybe not quite production ready yet, but
getting there. So with the way mobile is going, having an iOS and
Android library will be great to have now instead of later.

Cheers,
Jack

[Darshan Shankar]

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing the ObjC client Jack

-Darshan

--
Darshan Shankar

www.nowjs.com

[Sridatta Thatipamala]

Awesome. I'll continue updating the message format page on the wiki as
I get time. (If you need any clarifications in the meantime, let us
know)

Please do post your code on Github. I just got a Mac and I'd be down
to learn ObjC/help out.
--Sridatta

[Jack Watson-Hamblin]

Here is the github repo: https://github.com/FluffyJack/NowObjC

Looking at that wiki page, it looks simple enough that this should be
able to be implemented in any language. I'll probably do one in Ruby,
for Android, and then maybe some other ones too.

Glad to see you guys are excited. Any help is welcome Sridatta.

[r-dent]

Looking at that wiki page, it looks simple enough that this should be 
able to be implemented in any language. I'll probably do one in Ruby, 
for Android, and then maybe some other ones too.

Until now i could´t find any implementation by you :-) Do you still work on this?

Awesome. I'll continue updating the message format page on the wiki as
I get time. (If you need any clarifications in the meantime, let us
know)

I looked at the wiki Page (https://github.com/Flotype/now/wiki/Wire-Format) but it´s empty. There are some infos in the page history but i´m not shure if they are up to date and valid.

I´m relatively new to ObjC. But i need a NowJS client and i would try to implement one. But some information about the current state of the message format and/or some hint´s how to approach this project would be very nice. 

[Darshan Shankar]

We'll be releasing a new technology called Bridge in the next two weeks. It's kind of like RPC cross-language so you can do ObjC<->Node.js for example. Or Android. Or Ruby. Or anything else.

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Darshan Shankar

www.flotype.com

[r-dent]

So i just have to wait and everything will be allright? :-)