Pubdis

A simple socket.io/redis pubsub app

Requirements:

• Node.js 0.6
• Socket.io 0.8.7
• Redis 0.6.7

Usage:

In browser subscription:

Subscribe through the socket.io interface

<script src="http:/127.0.0.1:8001/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script>
  var socket = io.connect('http://127.0.0.1:8001');
  socket.emit('subscribe',[
    '1234/likes',
    '1234/comments'
  ]);
  socket.on('1234/likes',function(data) {
    document.body.innerText = data;
  });
  socket.on('1234/comments',function(data) {
    document.body.innerText = data;
  });
</script>

Server-side publishing:

Publish through any of the client wrappers or direct http POST

PHP

require('pub.php');
Pubdis::publish('1234','likes',55);
Pubdis::publish('1234','comments',array(
    'text' => 'dope vid bro',
    'dts' => 1320795715,
));

Python

from pub import Pubdis
Pubdis.publish('1234','likes',55)
Pubdis.publish('1234','comments',{'text': 'dope vid bro','dts': 1320795715,})

Node.js

var pubdis = require('./pub.js');
pubdis.publish('1234','likes',55);
pubdis.publish('1234','comments',{'text': 'dope vid bro','dts': 1320795715,});

HTTP

path is /id/action[/subaction[/subsubaction[etc]]] data should be passed as a json encoded, url encoded string

POST /1234/likes HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8000
data=%7B%27text%27%3A+%27dope+vid+bro%27%2C%27dts%27%3A+1320795715%2C%7D