This example demonstrates a WAMP component providing a decimal calculator service.
A browser based UI is included which uses AutobahnJS to access the decimal calculator service.
Further, since it's a standard WAMP service, any WAMP client can use the service. You could access it i.e. from a native Android app via AutobahnAndroid or from a remote AutobahnPython based client.
Run the calculator backend component by doing
python calculator.py
and open
http://localhost:8080/
in your browser.
To activate debug output, start it
python calculator.py --debug
The calculator service performs correct decimal arithmetic, something not available (out of the box) in JavaScript.
To see this just try
console.log(1.1 + 2.2);
in your browser. The output is:
3.3000000000000003
which is not the result a person would expect when using a calculator.
The reason is that JavaScript implements all numbers as IEEE doubles, which is a binary floating-point type. Since it's a base-2 floating point, certain numbers cannot be represented exactly. To be precise, any rational number with a divisor having a prime factor other than 2 cannot be represented exactly. Decimal arithmetic uses a base-10, which has prime factors 2 and 5, and consequently all rationals which have no other prime factors in their divisor other than 2 or 5 can be represented exactly.
Anyway, I hope you get what I mean;)