eventsocket

eventsocket

Event socket

Install

$ npm install eventsocket

Usage

var EventSocket = require('eventsocket');

Methods

EventSocket(ip, port)

Create new event socket from ip and port.

var socket = new EventSocket('127.0.0.1', 7000);

EventSocket(socket)

Create new event socket from existingnet.Socket or JsonSocket

var net = require('net');
var server = net.createServer(function (con) {
    var socket = new EventSocket(con);
}

emit(eventType, args...)

Send event over socket.

socket.emit('message',{foo: 'bar'});

disconnect()

Destroy connection

on(eventType, listener)

Inherited from events.EventEmitter

Events

connect

Emitted when socket connected (only when you pass ip, port).

disconnect

Emitted when disconnected.

Custom

Emitted event from peer

Logging

You can enable logging. See more

# disabled logging
node test.js

# connect, disconnect log
DEBUG=EventSocket:connection node test.js

# data log
DEBUG=EventSocket:data node test.js

# all event socket logs
DEBUG=EventSocket:* node test.js

Protocol

We send json objects over socket then write one \0. This is c/c++ friendly protocol. :smile:

Json object has name and args property. name must be string and args must be array.

{"name":"message","args":[{"foo":"bar"}]}\0