polling-jsonp.js

/**
 * Module requirements.
 */

var Polling = require('./polling');
var inherit = require('component-inherit');

/**
 * Module exports.
 */

module.exports = JSONPPolling;

/**
 * Cached regular expressions.
 */

var rNewline = /\n/g;
var rEscapedNewline = /\\n/g;

/**
 * Global JSONP callbacks.
 */

var callbacks;

/**
 * Noop.
 */

function empty () { }

/**
 * Until https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global is shipped.
 */
function glob () {
  return typeof self !== 'undefined' ? self
      : typeof window !== 'undefined' ? window
      : typeof global !== 'undefined' ? global : {};
}

/**
 * JSONP Polling constructor.
 *
 * @param {Object} opts.
 * @api public
 */

function JSONPPolling (opts) {
  Polling.call(this, opts);

  this.query = this.query || {};

  // define global callbacks array if not present
  // we do this here (lazily) to avoid unneeded global pollution
  if (!callbacks) {
    // we need to consider multiple engines in the same page
    var global = glob();
    callbacks = global.___eio = (global.___eio || []);
  }

  // callback identifier
  this.index = callbacks.length;

  // add callback to jsonp global
  var self = this;
  callbacks.push(function (msg) {
    self.onData(msg);
  });

  // append to query string
  this.query.j = this.index;

  // prevent spurious errors from being emitted when the window is unloaded
  if (typeof addEventListener === 'function') {
    addEventListener('beforeunload', function () {
      if (self.script) self.script.onerror = empty;
    }, false);
  }
}

/**
 * Inherits from Polling.
 */

inherit(JSONPPolling, Polling);

/*
 * JSONP only supports binary as base64 encoded strings
 */

JSONPPolling.prototype.supportsBinary = false;

/**
 * Closes the socket.
 *
 * @api private
 */

JSONPPolling.prototype.doClose = function () {
  if (this.script) {
    this.script.parentNode.removeChild(this.script);
    this.script = null;
  }

  if (this.form) {
    this.form.parentNode.removeChild(this.form);
    this.form = null;
    this.iframe = null;
  }

  Polling.prototype.doClose.call(this);
};

/**
 * Starts a poll cycle.
 *
 * @api private
 */

JSONPPolling.prototype.doPoll = function () {
  var self = this;
  var script = document.createElement('script');

  if (this.script) {
    this.script.parentNode.removeChild(this.script);
    this.script = null;
  }

  script.async = true;
  script.src = this.uri();
  script.onerror = function (e) {
    self.onError('jsonp poll error', e);
  };

  var insertAt = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
  if (insertAt) {
    insertAt.parentNode.insertBefore(script, insertAt);
  } else {
    (document.head || document.body).appendChild(script);
  }
  this.script = script;

  var isUAgecko = 'undefined' !== typeof navigator && /gecko/i.test(navigator.userAgent);

  if (isUAgecko) {
    setTimeout(function () {
      var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
      document.body.appendChild(iframe);
      document.body.removeChild(iframe);
    }, 100);
  }
};

/**
 * Writes with a hidden iframe.
 *
 * @param {String} data to send
 * @param {Function} called upon flush.
 * @api private
 */

JSONPPolling.prototype.doWrite = function (data, fn) {
  var self = this;

  if (!this.form) {
    var form = document.createElement('form');
    var area = document.createElement('textarea');
    var id = this.iframeId = 'eio_iframe_' + this.index;
    var iframe;

    form.className = 'socketio';
    form.style.position = 'absolute';
    form.style.top = '-1000px';
    form.style.left = '-1000px';
    form.target = id;
    form.method = 'POST';
    form.setAttribute('accept-charset', 'utf-8');
    area.name = 'd';
    form.appendChild(area);
    document.body.appendChild(form);

    this.form = form;
    this.area = area;
  }

  this.form.action = this.uri();

  function complete () {
    initIframe();
    fn();
  }

  function initIframe () {
    if (self.iframe) {
      try {
        self.form.removeChild(self.iframe);
      } catch (e) {
        self.onError('jsonp polling iframe removal error', e);
      }
    }

    try {
      // ie6 dynamic iframes with target="" support (thanks Chris Lambacher)
      var html = '<iframe src="javascript:0" name="' + self.iframeId + '">';
      iframe = document.createElement(html);
    } catch (e) {
      iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
      iframe.name = self.iframeId;
      iframe.src = 'javascript:0';
    }

    iframe.id = self.iframeId;

    self.form.appendChild(iframe);
    self.iframe = iframe;
  }

  initIframe();

  // escape \n to prevent it from being converted into \r\n by some UAs
  // double escaping is required for escaped new lines because unescaping of new lines can be done safely on server-side
  data = data.replace(rEscapedNewline, '\\\n');
  this.area.value = data.replace(rNewline, '\\n');

  try {
    this.form.submit();
  } catch (e) {}

  if (this.iframe.attachEvent) {
    this.iframe.onreadystatechange = function () {
      if (self.iframe.readyState === 'complete') {
        complete();
      }
    };
  } else {
    this.iframe.onload = complete;
  }
};