[erlang-questions] Decoding term_to_binary in javascript

[Bohuslav Svancara]

What about ASN.1 and ASN.1 JavaScript decoder http://lapo.it/asn1js ?

Bob

2011/11/16 Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED>

>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Andrew Berman <rexxe98@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> What happens if you use the dataFilter function on jQuery.ajax?  The docs
>> say:
>>
>> A function to be used to handle the raw response data of
>> XMLHttpRequest.This is a pre-filtering function to sanitize the response.
>> You should return the sanitized data. The function accepts two arguments:
>> The raw data returned from the server and the 'dataType' parameter.
>>
>
> Tried that - but pre-filtering function does not appear to get the raw
> data - it gets a
> utf8 string that has been obtained by parsing the data from the server.
>
> /joe
>
>
>>
>> Just thinking you could decode the response in that function.
>>
>> Never tried it though....
>>
>> --Andrew
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> To anser my own question it's not so easy.
>>>
>>> A bert encoded term starts <<131, ...>>
>>>
>>> Now 131 is not a single byte UTF8 character -  when I make
>>> an ajax call from jquery in the browser the ajax stuff tryoes to convert
>>> the blob containing a <<128,...>> to a utf8 string
>>> and the decoding fails.
>>>
>>> There are some html5 extensions -- something like
>>>
>>>      var r = new XMLHttpRequest();
>>>      r.open("GET", "get_bert", true);
>>>      r.responseType = "arraybuffer"
>>>
>>>       r.onload = function(e) {   // XHR2
>>>          var arr = new Uint8Array(this.response);
>>>
>>> seems to work - but the exiting libraries cannot decode
>>> a Unit8Array :-(
>>>
>>> Why the heck sockets and ajax calls can't just sent back
>>> sequences of bytes and not mess with them is a mystery to me
>>>
>>> /Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This looks good.
>>>>
>>>> Another question.
>>>>
>>>> Has anybody an example client-server example of bert?
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking:
>>>>
>>>>            server in erlang  = bert + mochiweb/misultin/cowboy/yaws ...
>>>>            client in browser = jquery + bert
>>>>
>>>> Id like to make an ajax RPC from the client that returns a bert blob
>>>> unpacks the blob and displays the result.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /Joe
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you can settle for BERT, I think there are some JavaScript
>>>>> implementations out there:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/rtomayko/node-bertrpc/blob/master/src/bert.js
>>>>>
>>>>> BR,
>>>>> Ulf W
>>>>>
>>>>> On 15 Nov 2011, at 12:57, Joe Armstrong wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > I'd like to send a term_to_binary encoded term to a web client and
>>>>> decode it in javascript.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > If I could do this it would eliminate the impedance mismatch between
>>>>> server-side databases
>>>>> > and client code in a browser. I want to totally eliminate
>>>>> conversions to and from JSON. Just send
>>>>> > raw blobs containing term_to_binary encoded data and pluck what I
>>>>> want in the client.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I would not necessarily want to decode the entire blob, I might just
>>>>> want to extract a specific item
>>>>> > So for example if In Erlang I created a blob by saying
>>>>> >
>>>>> >       Blob = term_to_binary({thing,"foo","bar",["baz"]})
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I'd like to send this to a browser and in Javascript say:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >      var z = mylib_hd(my_lib_element(4,Blob))
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Whereby z would be the javascript string "baz".
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Has anybody implemented anything like this?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > /Joe
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
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