standard node kind of has something like this... you can enable the built-in repl on a port: http://nodejs.org/api/repl.html
if you want something more fancy, there's dnode or resque. there are lots of things out there for this kind of need already... On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:51 AM, deitch <[email protected]> wrote: > Or better yet: just solve it yourself. > > I built exactly that, jsmx. Available on npm, very simple source at > https://github.com/deitch/jsmx > > > > On Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:35:12 AM UTC+3, deitch wrote: >> >> And, yes, I *know* I can use event emitter for this (or EventEmitter2, >> which is cleaner), but the point is to have it. >> >> On Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:21:43 AM UTC+3, deitch wrote: >>> >>> Is anything out there? >>> >>> Sample use case: app has several logging levels, with a default. The >>> default is overridden by an env var LOG_LEVEL, read on startup. Easy. >>> >>> Now I want to change the LOG_LEVEL to debug (or some higher level) for, >>> say, 30 minutes, and then change it back. I do *not* want to restart my app >>> - which would be necessary if I just changed the env var - because I may >>> lose some state that is crucial to my debugging effort. >>> >>> Is there anything? >>> >>> The way I would see it working, you have a "message bus" type object, >>> which anyone can subscribe to, but it publishes from the outside using http. >>> >>> var mx = require('mx'); >>> mx.sub('messagePattern',**callbackFn); >>> >>> Option A: use the already existing http listener, but have a special URL >>> path >>> http://myserver/specialpath?**param=val¶m=val&;..<http://myserver/specialpath?param=val¶m=val&;..> >>> .. >>> Option B: set up a "message bus" type object, which anything can listen >>> to for messages, it then listens on a different port to isolate the traffic >>> from production traffic. >>> >>> mx.listen(somePort); >>> >>> From the outside, you then talk HTTP to that given port (should have a >>> well-known default) to send a management message to the app: >>> >>> curl http://localhost:somePort/**messagePattern?param=val&** >>> param=val.... >>> >>> (or you can PUT or POST). >>> >>> Would need some form of authentication, but that is easy using http auth. >>> >>> Thoughts here? >>> >> -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
