Feature request: Two-way channels

[estaylorco]

Feature request: Two-way channels

[ifandelse]

@estaylorco Thanks for the detailed explanation. I've been thinking of how I'd want to implement a request/response pattern as well - and I really appreciate hearing your thoughts on it. Lately I'd been leaning towards it being an add-on to keep core as minimal as possible, but I agree with you that it could make our lives easier to have. I'll dust off some of my old ideas, look more at your examples and also chat with a couple of friends who implemented their own approach to this in postal as well....and get some gists together to get your feedback. Bear with me - I have a 2 month old baby who can fight sleep like no other, so it's slow going for me for a bit. :-)

[estaylorco]

@ifandelse O.K. That sounds good. Considering your two-month old, take your time. Glad to hear that you are open to the suggestion, though. The pattern is emerging more and more frequently.

Thank you.

[ifandelse]

@estaylorco check this out and let me know what you think when you have time: https://github.com/postaljs/postal.request-response

[estaylorco]

@ifandelse Wow! That's awesome! Using [pluggable] promises is so much more elegant. I just read through the documentation, and I like what I see. There a 7 instances in my application where I need request-response. I will introduce postal.request-response this weekend and give you feedback. Thanks so much for taking the time to introduce this functionality!

[ifandelse]

@estaylorco just curious if you'd had a chance to see if the postal.request-response add-on worked out OK for you?

[estaylorco]

@ifandelse Oh, man. Sorry about not getting back to you. Yes, I successfully incorporated request-response. It's perfect! I have a Durandal composition that, previously, asked a MultiAddress Widget for addresses over the '/addresses/request' topic, and got those addresses back over the '/addresses/response' topic. It was the perfect candidate to test postal.request-response, which made this scenario far less complex.

I'm actually in the process of converting all request-response implementations to postal.js.

Thanks for your hard work on this!

[ifandelse]

@estaylorco Sweet! Glad to hear it's working out well! I'll close this - but keep me posted if you run into any issues. Thanks!