On Apr 17, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
On Apr 16, 11:42 am, Jason Essington <[email protected]>
wrote:
I am going on some stale gears info here, but ...
On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:15 PM, fvisticot wrote:
I would like to call GWT RPC method from my worker pool for
synchronization process between dbs (client and server)
It seems that the WorkerPool can only call javascript file or text
script...
GWT purpose is to generate javascript as well so it is not
possible
to:
1. develop the method/class to invoke in the WorkerPool with GWT.
yeah sure, create a new GWT module for each worker. there is a
GALGWT
project that should have some Gears integration stuff in it.
In theory, it would be possible to use GWT to generate code for
workers in the worker pool, but I've never done it. If someone else
has, I'd love to hear about it.
Yup, done that. but it was back after the first Google Developer day
(right after Gears was announced). GWT was at version 1.4 (maybe in
RC) I think, and linkers didn't really exist as such.
I ended up modifying the XS template to get the worker code.
When I first did this, it only took about a day to get it up and
running, so I'd have to imagine that it'd be much easier now.
A new linker or manual trickery would
be needed to eliminate relying on browser load event logic, which is
inappropriate for WorkerPool threads.
2. compile this method with GWT compiler
yup, but you'll need to use the single script linker
Unfortunately, the reliance on browser events and window objects is
present even in the SingleScriptLinker, but you could probably work
around it.
Well, this is the "don't shoot yourself in the foot" part. don't use
window or any DOM methods ... which means no widgets or UI bits. but
it is possible. but again, it is possible.
3. call this method from the WorkerPool
That one is one that I'm not sure on. At one time it was possible
to
issue XHR from a worker, but I was told that was a bug. I'm not
sure
if worker XHRs have been added or not. I'm sure someone that is
more
up to date on Gears can answer that one for you.
There is now a way to call an XHR using the HttpRequest object in
WorkerPool, but again, since I haven't written code in GWT for a
WorkerPool, I haven't tried to integrate GWT RPC.
Well that's good news. theoretically then we could sync in the
background
Since GWT RPC is asyncronous, you could do the RPCs in the main
thread
and then send the result data as messages to Worker threads.
Can objects now be passed to workers? if not, then performing the RPC
in the main thread requires a second serialization/deserialization
trip, (only this time both are done in javascript) to get the result
into the worker
-jason
