convojs

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ConvoJS: making chatty protocols easier

ConvoJS is made to make chatty protocols over streams easier, now you are able to create a protocol with an object.

How it works

Step 1: Install ConvoJS

you can include the convo.js file or install it via NPM

npm install convojs

Step 2: Code

now you need to load ConvoJS first in an var,

var convojs = require('convojs');

ConvoJS only returns a function this is the constructor so creating a new ConvoJS object is done like this

var convo = new convojs();

now this will obviously throw errors because there are no arguments, ConvoJS only needs one arguments and that is the options object which usually looks like this

var convo = new convojs({
    // the stream we need to listen AND write to
    stream  : serialPort,
    // the commands for this convo
    commands: [
        {
            // the solver of this command, can be a string,regex,function or array
            // with those things
            solver:/Hai/,
            // response can be everything, if its not a function it will be directly
            // be written to the stream when this command is called
            response:"Hey gtg kthxbye",
            // the commands that can be executed after this command
            commands:[
                {
                    // solver as regex
                    solver:/.*/,
                    // if the solver is regex and the repsonse a string, the string
                    // will be formatted with the matches
                    // for example if you send 'hello' this command will respond with
                    // You told me 'hello'
                    response:"You told me '{0}'",
                    commands:[
                        {
                            solver:'cant get in',
                            response:"nope",
                            // if commands is false we will not scope deeper and
                            // stay in the current command collection
                            commands:false
                        },
                        {
                            // solver also can be a function
                            // there will be passed 1 argument and thats the data
                            // solver must return something truety or falsy
                            solver:function(data){
                                return !!data;
                            },
                            // repsonse also can be a function
                            // there will be passed 3 arguments
                            // - writer: the stream to write to
                            // - data: the data received from the stream
                            // - solver: the solver
                            response:function(writer,data,solver){

                            },
                            // commands can be a negative number,
                            // when commands is a negative number it will go up
                            // that amount of times so in this example the
                            // command collection will be set to the collection
                            // it started with
                            commands:-2
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    // [optional] works just like the command collection but will always be fired
    // BEFORE the standard command collection, if a command is matched
    // it will immeditially stop looking for others
    globalCommands:[],
    // [optional] where ConvoJS has to write the reponses to
    //  writer has an higher priority then stream
    writer:false,
    // [optional] where ConvoJS has to read from
    //  reader has an higher priority then stream
    reader:false
});

ConvoJS will automagicly hook to the data event so you only need to build the object and (if needed) open the stream

Object Reference

ConvoJS.unbind()##

this will unbind the ConvoJS from the stream and release all events hooked to it

ConvoJS.options##

the given options, merged with the default options object

ConvoJS.writer##

the stream where ConvoJS writes to

ConvoJS.reader##

the stream where ConvoJS reads from

ConvoJS.globalCommands##

all the global commands in this ConvoJS

ConvoJS.commands##

the given commands object

ConvoJS.selectedCommand##

the at the moment selected command

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