From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T00:03:59+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Roxy 0.1 - Remote Proxy Objects w/ type & method signature impersonation and w/ remote block yields.

Hey folks.

I know a number of people are/were interested in this.

I've just requested the rubyforge project for Roxy.

If you've watched the ruby-talk mailing list over the past few weeks,
I've been having a discussion with a number of people about
implementing clean proxy objects.  Ones that don't hide the signatures
of the objects they are meant to impersonate.

Anyways, I've built what I believe is version 0.1 of the project. It
even works with blocks (see the snippets below). And, since the object
impersonates the remote, irb's auto-completion works for remote
objects.

So, as soon as the rubyforge folks validate the project, I will get
things posted for all to help make even better.

... until then, I'll simply wet your appetite with the following:

-- SCRIPT: server.rb --

require 'roxy'

my_array = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
server = RoxyServer.new( "hostname", 4242, my_array )
trap( "INT" ) { server.stop_server }
server.start_server.join

-- END: SCRIPT --

-- SCRIPT: client.rb --

require 'roxy'

obj = Roxy.new( "hostname", 4242 )
obj.class #=> Array
obj.methods # returns list of Array instance methods
obj.map { |c| c*2 } #=> [ 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ]

-- END: SCRIPT --

Let me know what you think. I'm getting things posted as quickly as possible.

Additional features I plan to implement include allowing for ANY
Socket object to act as medium for communication, that way people can
override it with whatever protocols they would like to use.

A known limitation is that ONLY the first call of a chain (
obj.call.call.call ) will be executed remotely, the rest will be
executed locally on the result values.

So, until I get the project posted... please let me know and I can
send you one by hand.

Again, your feedback is very much appreciated.

j.

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Jeff Wood