NAME

JSORB - Javascript Object Request Broker

SYNOPSIS

  use JSORB;
  use JSORB::Server::Simple;
  use JSORB::Dispatcher::Path;
  use JSORB::Reflector::Package;
  
  # create some code to expose over RPC
  {
      package Math::Simple;
      use Moose;

      sub add { $_[0] + $_[1] }
  }
  
  # Set up a simple JSORB server  
  JSORB::Server::Simple->new(
      port       => 8080,
      dispatcher => JSORB::Dispatcher::Path->new(
          namespace => JSORB::Reflector::Package->new(
              # tell JSORB to introspect the package
              introspector   => Math::Simple->meta,
              # add some type information 
              # about the procedure
              procedure_list => [
                  { name => 'add', spec => [ ('Int', 'Int') => 'Int' ] }
              ]
          )->namespace
      )
  )->run;
  
  # go to the URL directly ...
  http://localhost:8080/?method=/math/simple/add&params=[2,2]  
  
  # and get back a response ...
  {"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":2}
  
  # or use the Javascript client library
  
  var c = new JSORB.Client ({
      base_url : 'http://localhost:8080/',
  })
  
  c.call({
      method : '/math/simple/add',
      params : [ 2, 2 ]
  }, function (result) {
      alert(result)
  });

DESCRIPTION

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DISCLAIMER

This is a VERY VERY early release of this module, and while it is quite functional, this module should in no way be seen as complete. You are more then welcome to experiment and play around with this module, but don't come crying to me if it accidently deletes your MP3 collection, kills the neighbors dog and causes the large hadron collider to create a black hole that swallows up all of existence tearing you molecule from molecule along the event horizon for all eternity.

GOAL

The goal of this module is to provide a cleaner and more formalized way to do AJAX programming using JSON-RPC in the flavor of Object Request Brokers.

FUTURE PLANS

Currently this is more focused on RPC calls between Perl on the server side and Javascript on the client side. Eventually we will have a Perl client and possibly some servers written in other languages as well.

Plans for auto-generation of the Javascript clients is also on my TODO list. These clients will provide a more natural style of programming with Javascript objects and reduce the heavy RPC slant of the current usage patterns.

GETTING STARTED

The documentation is very sparse and I apologize for that, but the test suite has a lot of good stuff to read and there is a couple neat things in the example directory. If you want to know more about the Javascript end there are tests for that as well. As this module matures more the docs will improve, but as mentioned above, it is still pretty new and we have big plans for its future.

BUGS

All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT.

AUTHOR

Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2009 Infinity Interactive, Inc.

http://www.iinteractive.com

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.