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Angular, SSE and modifying a list model

Posted by eggsearle on April 8, 2012

The previous example used a very simple model, consisting of a single String.

A more realistic implementation would add the strings to a list.


<body ng-app>
 <div ng:controller="Main">
 <ul>
 <li ng:repeat="item in items">
 {{item}}
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>

<script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[

var source = new EventSource('/events');

function Main($scope) {
 $scope.items = [];

source.addEventListener('right', function(e) {
 $scope.$apply(function() {
 $scope.items.push(e.data);
 });
 },false);
 }
 //]]>
 </script>
 </body>

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Angular.js and Server Sent Events wiring

Posted by eggsearle on April 8, 2012

SSE provides a standardized HTML5 way to push data over an HTTP connection.
angular is an interesting Javascript MVC framework that uses binding to provide a very clean implementation.
The general Angular documentation covers interactions that are initiated from the browser. Implementing an external push into Angular was not clearly described until the 1.0 release.

The following example uses a snapshot from upcoming angular 1.0 release.

Strings received via /events, tagged with right, are displayed

</pre>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
 <title>AngularJS and SSE</title>
 <script type='text/javascript' src="http://ci.angularjs.org/job/angular.js-angular-master/ws/build/angular.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-app>
 <div ng:controller="Main">
Value {{data}}
</div>

<script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[

var source = new EventSource('/events');

function Main($scope, $window) {
 source.addEventListener('right', function(e) {
 $scope.$apply(function() {
 $scope.data = e.data;
 });
 },false);
}
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>
<pre>

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