Recieving data

There are two ways to reciveve data from a client. With ZilaWS data can be asked and waited for.

Asking for data

To ask a client for data, use the waiter function. This will trigger a client side MessageHandler and return its value. The maximum waiting time for this is the server's maxWaitingTime value in miliseconds.

const server = new ZilaServer({
  port: 6589,
  logger: true, //Enables logging
  verbose: true //Enables verbose logging
});

console.log(await server.waiter(client, "GetValueOfPI") as number); // --> 3.141592653589793

Waiting for data

Set a MessageHandler which runs when the server recives a message from a client with the event's identifier. There can be any number of params of any type.

server.setMessageHandler("SomeIdentifier", (param1: string, param2: number, param3: object /*, ...*/) => {
    //Your code
});

If the client uses the waiter function to send data, you can make it wait until it is done.

server.setMessageHandler("SomeIdentifier", async (param1: string, param2: number, param3: object /*,...*/) => {
    return await new Promise<void>((resolve) =>{
        //Your Code is represented by this timeout
        setTimeout(() => {
            resolve();
        }, 3000);
    });
});