Web Page for System Message Pump

Written on: July 25, 2018 12:26 pm

We can take the Message Pump sample one step further. We can incorporate real-time web page communication. The web server supports WebSockets. WebSockets allow for real-time bidirectional communication. We can leverage this feature and have these messages put on the Message Pump so that our Java application can get them.

Our web page for the example looks like this.

In the code we have a button handler that will send the json formatted message to the web server.

            // register an onclick method so that we can post a message to get a random number from our 
            // sample java application.
            document.getElementById('random-number-button').onclick = function (e) {
                var getUpdates = {Message: "Post Message", Number: 2000, Content: "get-random-number"};
                _comm.sendJson(getUpdates);
            };

A full listing of the web page is as follows

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

    <head>
        <base href="/messagepumpsample/">

        <title>Message Pump Web Interface</title>

        <script src="comm.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="md5.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

        <style>
            body { padding: 5px; }
        </style>

    </head>


    <body>

        <div>

            <h1>Message Pump Web Interface</h1>

            <button id="random-number-button">Get Random Number</button>
            <p style="width: 600px;">
                Clicking the button above will cause a message to get sent to the Web Server.  The Web Server 
                then places it in the System Message Pump.  Our sample Java application will then receive it and 
                for the sake of the sample will respond with a random number.  By placing the random number in a 
                message and back on to the System Message Pump with the same message type that it received, the 
                Operating System knows to send it back to the Web Server and in turn back to the sending Web 
                Socket connection.
            </p>

        </div>


        <script type="text/javascript">
            // our websocket communication object
            var _comm;
            var _loggedIn = false;

            // method called when the connection is successfully opened
            var onopen = function () {
                console.log("comm opened");
            };
            
            // method called when our websocket object receives a message from the web server
            var onmessage = function (evt) {
                var json = JSON.parse(evt.data);
                console.log(json);

                if (json.Message === "Monitor") {
                    if (!_loggedIn) {
                    }
                    _loggedIn = true;
                }

                //
                else if (json.Message === "Reply Message") {
                    if (2000 === json.Number) {
                        alert("Your Random Number is " + json.Content);
                    }
                }
            };
            
            // instantiate our websocket communications object and wire up some methods.  lastly call connect!
            _comm = new Comm();
            _comm.onopen = onopen;
            _comm.onmessage = onmessage;
            _comm.connect();


            
            // register an onclick method so that we can post a message to get a random number from our 
            // sample java application.
            document.getElementById('random-number-button').onclick = function (e) {
                var getUpdates = {Message: "Post Message", Number: 2000, Content: "get-random-number"};
                _comm.sendJson(getUpdates);
            };
        </script>
    </body>

</html>

To accomplish this we created a class to handle the get-random-number request. We could have handled this in our Main class but hey I like modularity.

package com.integpg.messagepumpsample;

import com.integpg.system.SystemMsg;
import java.util.Random;

public class RandomNumberMessageHandler implements MessagePumpListener {

    @Override
    public void messageReceived(SystemMsg systemMsg) {
        // this sample uses message type 2000
        if (2000 == systemMsg.type) {
            String content = new String(systemMsg.msg);
            System.out.println("content: " + content);
            
            Random rand = new Random();
            int randomNumber = rand.nextInt();
            
            SystemMsg responseMsg = new SystemMsg();
            responseMsg.type = 2000;
            responseMsg.msg = String.valueOf(randomNumber).getBytes();
            
            MessagePumpEngine.postMessage(responseMsg);
        }
    }

}

We also had to modify our init() method to attach our MessagePumpHandler.

package com.integpg.messagepumpsample;

import com.integpg.system.SystemMsg;
import java.util.Random;

public class RandomNumberMessageHandler implements MessagePumpListener {

    @Override
    public void messageReceived(SystemMsg systemMsg) {
        // this sample uses message type 2000
        if (2000 == systemMsg.type) {
            String content = new String(systemMsg.msg);
            System.out.println("content: " + content);
            
            // get a random number
            Random rand = new Random();
            int randomNumber = rand.nextInt();
            
            // build our response
            SystemMsg responseMsg = new SystemMsg();
            responseMsg.type = 2000;
            responseMsg.msg = String.valueOf(randomNumber).getBytes();
            MessagePumpEngine.postMessage(responseMsg);
        }
    }

}

Almost immediately upon clicking the button we get our response.

As you can see here the web page gives you an amazing ability to communicate with a Java application in real-time.

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