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Changed the connect method to a public API, so that a user can manual…
Aug 3, 2014
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Changed connect() to open() to be more consistent with close().
Aug 5, 2014
9dc4142
Added basic documentation on using `open`, `close` and `refresh`.
Aug 5, 2014
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ With a `ReconnectingWebSocket`, after an `onclose` event is called it will autom

This is all handled automatically for you by the library.

Manually Opening, Closing and Refreshing connections
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When you create a new `ReconnectingWebSocket`, the `WebSocket` connection is created and opened for you. In the case that you need to manually close a connection, simply run the `close()` method. To open the connection back up, use `open()`. If you need to close and immediately reopen the connection, use `refresh()`.

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18 changes: 9 additions & 9 deletions reconnecting-websocket.js
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* onopen // sometime later...
* onmessage
* onmessage
* etc...
* etc...
*
* It is API compatible with the standard WebSocket API.
*
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var ws;
var forcedClose = false;
var timedOut = false;

this.url = url;
this.protocols = protocols;
this.readyState = WebSocket.CONNECTING;
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this.onerror = function(event) {
};

function connect(reconnectAttempt) {
this.open = function(reconnectAttempt) {
ws = new WebSocket(url, protocols);

self.onconnecting();
if (self.debug || ReconnectingWebSocket.debugAll) {
console.debug('ReconnectingWebSocket', 'attempt-connect', url);
}

var localWs = ws;
var timeout = setTimeout(function() {
if (self.debug || ReconnectingWebSocket.debugAll) {
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localWs.close();
timedOut = false;
}, self.timeoutInterval);

ws.onopen = function(event) {
clearTimeout(timeout);
if (self.debug || ReconnectingWebSocket.debugAll) {
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self.reconnectAttempts = 0;
self.onopen(event);
};

ws.onclose = function(event) {
clearTimeout(timeout);
ws = null;
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}
setTimeout(function() {
self.reconnectAttempts++;
connect(true);
self.open(true);
}, self.reconnectInterval * Math.pow(self.reconnectDecay, self.reconnectAttempts));
}
};
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self.onerror(event);
};
}
connect(false);
this.open(false);

this.send = function(data) {
if (ws) {
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