Hey folks.
I know a number of people are/were interested in this.
I've just requested the rubyforge project for Roxy.
If you've watched the ruby-talk mailing list over the past few weeks,
I've been having a discussion with a number of people about
implementing clean proxy objects. Ones that don't hide the signatures
of the objects they are meant to impersonate.
Anyways, I've built what I believe is version 0.1 of the project. It
even works with blocks (see the snippets below). And, since the object
impersonates the remote, irb's auto-completion works for remote
objects.
So, as soon as the rubyforge folks validate the project, I will get
things posted for all to help make even better.
... until then, I'll simply wet your appetite with the following:
-- SCRIPT: server.rb --
require 'roxy'
my_array = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
server = RoxyServer.new( "hostname", 4242, my_array )
trap( "INT" ) { server.stop_server }
server.start_server.join
-- END: SCRIPT --
-- SCRIPT: client.rb --
require 'roxy'
obj = Roxy.new( "hostname", 4242 )
obj.class #=> Array
obj.methods # returns list of Array instance methods
obj.map { |c| c*2 } #=> [ 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ]
-- END: SCRIPT --
Let me know what you think. I'm getting things posted as quickly as possible.
Additional features I plan to implement include allowing for ANY
Socket object to act as medium for communication, that way people can
override it with whatever protocols they would like to use.
A known limitation is that ONLY the first call of a chain (
obj.call.call.call ) will be executed remotely, the rest will be
executed locally on the result values.
So, until I get the project posted... please let me know and I can
send you one by hand.
Again, your feedback is very much appreciated.
j.
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