Subj : setTimeout and data storage
To   : Xeanalyth
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jul 19 2012 02:33 am

  Re: setTimeout and data storage
  By: Xeanalyth to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_JavaScript on Thu Jul 19 2012 07:25 pm

 > Hi All,
 >
 > Just a couple of questions about the JS implementation in SBBS..
 >
 > Firstly, a question about timed events:
 >
 >
 > Reading script from /home/bbs/mods/stock/main.js
 > /home/bbs/mods/stock/main.js compiled in 0.00 seconds
 > Hello World
 > !JavaScript  /home/bbs/mods/stock/main.js line 13: ReferenceError:
 > setTimeout is not defined
 > /home/bbs/mods/stock/main.js executed in 0.02 seconds
 >
 >
 > setTimeout is not defined?  How does one go about executing
 > timed events?

In Synchronet, the term "timed events" means programs/modules/scripts that the 
sysops has configured in SCFG->External Programs->Timed Events. I assum you 
mean something else. Perhaps you want a background thread which executes a JS 
function at a predefined interval? One way to do that would be to use a 
background load() of another JS file which contain's that function which 
sleeps() between intervals.

 > Secondly, is there a standard way for SBBS apps (doors, utils and
 > other things) to store arbitrary data in a database style format?
 > I cannot find anything in the API documentation that looks like
 > it's supported.
 >
 > If there isn't... what are other people using for their persistent
 > data stores for extensions to and doors for SBBS?

ini files (using the Synchronet File class) is one method (see binarydecoder.js 
for an example), json files is another method (see exec/load/json-db.js and 
friends for a helpful library). One sysop had a patch which added support for 
sqlite to Synchronet, but I'm not aware of any apps (doors, utils, etc.) which 
use it (yet).

                                            digital man

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