HackHands Connect (beta)

HTML5 PostMessage library for effective cross-domain communication.

Features

• Lightweight
• Callback Support
• Events Support
• Bidirectional communication
• Based on JSON-RPC 2.0 Standard
• Same code on both ends

API

hhConnect( options )

Initializes a new connection to a window object (can be an iFrame or a popup)

Options:

• target (Required) - window object to connect (can be an iFrame or a popup)
• namespace - Namespace for this connection (usefull if you have multiple instances)
• cbReady - Callback when the connection is established (or restored)

HH.bind( functionName, [callback] )

Bind/Expose a new method

HH.call( functionName, [params], [callback] )

Call an already defined method

HH.on( eventName, [callback] )

Listen for an event

HH.emit( eventName, [params] )

Emit/Fire some event

Example

var HH = hhConnect({ 
	target: document.getElementById('myIframe').contentWindow,
	onReady: function(){
		alert('Connection ready!');
	
		HH.call('sumNumbers', {x:1, y:5}, function(error, data){
			alert(data)
		});
	}
})

HH.on('myEventName', function(data){
	console.log(data)
})

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2015, HackHands.com Dev Team

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