On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Hey David,
>
> Yeah - before Marius replied, I was not aware the same method existed
> on LiftSession; my bad.
>
> Anywho... what are you thinking on Marius' suggestion about using
> localSetup in a comet actor? I think that should negate the issues
> with the comet actor being placed on the page dynamically.... also,
> perhaps I could have an attribute that one could specify to override
> using the main domain (I believe this is what facebook do, use
> multiple domains that is).
>
> Would I be right in saying that the 2 connection issue only becomes a
> problem if there is another comet actor in play (3rd party to my
> widget and implemented by the user elsewhere)... do you think
> integrating something like jquery upload progress would be better /
> more simple?


The Actor issue is larger than the 2 actors problem.  If the Actor is doing
the long poll and another component on the page tries to do Ajax, you move
into trouble-land.


>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers, Tim
>
> On Jul 13, 5:27 pm, David Pollak <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Tim,
> >
> > I would avoid any and all globals.  I'd strongly suggest finding a way to
> do
> > things with sessions.
> >
> > There's no way to push an ad hoc CometActor to the browser.  CometActors
> > must be on the page at full page-load time.  They can be hidden and
> dormant,
> > but they must be on the page.  I'd opt for a timed poll rather than comet
> > push.  A 1 second or 3 second resolution on the upload widget update
> seems
> > very reasonable to me.
> >
> > I suspect that you'll run into a nasty problem with the 2 connection
> limit
> > that browsers have.  You've got 1 connection for the upload... you have
> to
> > carefully manage the second connection.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Timothy Perrett
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hey guys,
> >
> > > Implementing this upload progress widget with comet, I just wanted a
> > > quick sense check about how to organize things.
> >
> > > As the CometActor for a particular session will be instantiated adhoc,
> > > and the LiftRules.progessListener is global, my current thinking is to
> > > register a given comet actor with a singleton manager actor upon its
> > > instantiation. Giving a progressListener something like:
> >
> > > LiftRules.progessListener = (pBytesRead, pContentLength, pItems) => {
> > >  UploadProgressManager ! StatusUpdate(
> > >    S.session.map(_.uniqueId).openOr("default"),
> > >    pBytesRead, pContentLength, pItems)
> > > }
> >
> > > The idea being that when comet actors register with the manager actor
> > > they give there sessionId and then I can ensure that only upload
> > > progress for the current session goes to a given user (and user B
> > > doesnt get user A's upload progress).
> >
> > > However, I cant help but feel this is a little messy? Thoughts?
> >
> > > Cheers, Tim
> >
> > --
> > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net
> > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890
> > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp
> > Git some:http://github.com/dpp
> >
>


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