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Create the application: opa create chat
Directory structure resulting:
+- chat
| +- Makefile
| +- Makefile.common
| +- opa.conf
| +- resources
| | +- css
| | | +- style.css
| +- src
| | +- model.opa
| | +- view.opa
| | +- controller.opa
View: building the UI:
module View {
function page_template(content) {
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
<div class=navbar-inner>
<div class=container>
<div id=#logo />
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id=#main>
{content}
</div>
}
function user_update(message msg) {
line = <div class="row-fluid line">
<div class="span1 userpic" />
<div class="span2 user">{msg.author}:</>
<div class="span9 message">{msg.text}</>
</div>;
#conversation =+ line;
Dom.scroll_to_bottom(#conversation);
}
function broadcast(author) {
text = Dom.get_value(#entry);
Model.broadcast(~{author, text});
Dom.clear_value(#entry);
}
function chat_html(author) {
<div id=#conversation class=container-fluid
onready={function(_) { Model.register_message_callback(user_update)}} />
<div id=#footer class="navbar navbar-fixed-bottom">
<div class=container>
<div class=input-append>
<input id=#entry class=input-xxlarge type=text
onnewline={function(_) { broadcast(author) }}>
<button class="btn btn-primary" type=button
onclick={function(_) { broadcast(author) }}>Post</>
</div>
</div>
</div>
}
function default_page() {
author = Model.new_author();
Resource.page("Opa chat", page_template(chat_html(author)));
}
}
Model:
type message = {
string author, /** The name of the author (arbitrary string) */
string text /** Content entered by the user */
}
module Model {
private Network.network(message) room = Network.cloud("room")
exposed function broadcast(message) {
Network.broadcast(message, room);
}
function register_message_callback(callback) {
Network.add_callback(callback, room);
}
function new_author() {
Random.string(8);
}
}
Controller:
module Controller {
// URL dispatcher of your application; add URL handling as needed
dispatcher = {
parser {
case (.*) : View.default_page()
}
}
}
resources = @static_resource_directory("resources")
Server.start(Server.http, [
{ register:
[ { doctype: { html5 } },
{ js: [ ] },
{ css: [ "/resources/css/style.css"] }
]
},
{ ~resources },
{ custom: Controller.dispatcher }
])
Last modified 07 October 2024