nativescript-webworkers

nativescript-webworkers

NativeScript WebWorkers (threads) for Android and iOS This is really only useful if you need to access a hidden WebView now; NativeScript has internal support for WebWorkers for a long time now.

License

This is released under the MIT License, meaning you are free to include this in any type of program -- However for entities that need a support contract, changes, enhancements and/or a commercial license please contact me at http://nativescript.tools.

I also do contract work; so if you have a module you want built for NativeScript (or any other software projects) feel free to contact me [e-mail].

Breaking Changes

v2.00 No longer attempts to assign the global Worker object; NativeScript has Native WebWorker support for a long time now.

Notes

Please note The WebWorker environment is a LIMITED JavaScript shell. It does have AJAX/HTTP(s) ability; but it does NOT have any access to any of the NativeScript api. It also does not have any access to the Native iOS or Android api's. It is strictly a JS thread. In addition at this moment "ImportScripts" has not been implemented. It should be fairly easy to implement; and if anyone wants to do a pull request to implement this; I'd be happy to add it to the code that gets injected into the environment.

If the device has more than one CPU; the Worker threads should not impact the main NativeScript thread. However, if the device only has one CPU; and depending on how busy you make the worker, it will impact the primary NativeScript thread.

Installation

Run tns plugin add nativescript-webworkers in your ROOT directory of your project.

Usage

To use the module you must first require() it:

const WebWorker = require( 'nativescript-webworkers' );

const myWorker = new WebWorker('~/web.worker.js'); // i.e. using the WebWorker variable returned by the require statement.

new WebWorker(data)

data can be:

• File path to a JS file (either relative ~/.../somescript.js or full path /..../somescript.js)
• Object with a .HTML - which allows you to pass in your own HTML file
  • please make sure the HTML is proper and not malformed.
• Object with a .script - which allows you to pass in your own javascript code
  • Object can have its own custom .baseURL, otherwise defaults to the proper baseURL.

NativeScript environment

Events

####.onmessage(data) This will have the JSON object that was sent from the worker

####.onerror This will have any errors that occurred (this may be unreliable; as not all errors can be tracked properly)

####.onready This is fired when the webworker environment is ready to go.
This is NOT a standard webworker function

.executeJS

This allows you to send some JS into the environment. This is NOT a standard webworker function

Methods

####.postMessage(data) This posts the message into the webworker environment ####.terminate() This terminates the webworker environment; after this is ran; DO NOT attempt to continue doing anything on this webworker.

WebWorker Environment

Events

####onmessage(data) The function that gets any messages from the NativeScript environment

####onready() This function will get called if it exists once the webworker is able to communicate with the NativeScript host. This is NOT a standard webworker function

Methods

####postMessage(data) The function you use to send message back to the NativeScript environment

####close() Terminates this environment

##Example:

NativeScript code:

  const WebWorker = require( 'nativescript-webworkers' );
  var myWorker = new WebWorker('~/test.worker.js');
  myWorker.onmessage = function(m) { console.log("Webworker said:", m); };
  myWorker.postMessage("Hello");

test.worker.js

  onmessage = function(m) {
    console.log("NativeScript said" + m);	
  };
  onready = function() {
    postMessage("Hi");
  };