Created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2173
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Michal Mocny <[email protected]> wrote: > Background: I've been working on implementing chrome.socket [1] for mobile > chrome apps [2] and porting circ (an irc chrome app) [3]. Teaser video: > https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0UdPHoQPXheTzhTZXZHUlpGWHM (this is > still in its infancy, and I certainly do plan to submit a version of the > socket api that will work in cordova without any mobile chrome app magic). > > As part of doing that, I had to implement sending binary data across the > exec bridge (on ios for now), and I think it may be a good idea to just add > that functionality to cordova core. My current implementation is certainly > not the best, so I will extend the exec bridge echo benchmarks to test > binary transfer speeds and we can improve over time. > > My first step would be to implement helpers in js/ios/android which plugin > devs can call manually to serialize/deserialize binary data into/from > whatever magical form is most efficient. > > Next, I would try to automate these helpers from within the exec call > (e.g. iterate arguments looking for ArrayBuffer/Blob/etc types before json > serialization). As part of doing this, I would need to add "hints" about > the underlying argument types/some clever way to encode semantic > information about the arguments list, which we currently do not do. > > If anyone has any suggestions or objections please let me know! > > -Michal > > [1] http://developer.chrome.com/apps/socket.html > [2] > https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/chrome-cordova/blob/master/api/chrome/socket.jsand > https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/chrome-cordova/tree/master/plugins > [3] https://github.com/flackr/circ >
