In asp.net, How can i trigger client side jquery event from server. I want to implement it in my chat section... current the chat seems to work fine... but it has one problem... i have to send a request every 5 seconds from client's browser to the his chat history.. which i feel is not a good idea...
can anyone provide any solution for my problem
By default you need to do it with polling from the clients browser. That's how ajax works out of the box. There's a technique called Comet which is a push model.
You can try to use a jQuery plugin like this: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jQuery-Comet-Push-API.
In the (near) future you could make use of websockets as well in HTML5. Here's information taken from http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/HTM10.
WebSockets, an emerging specification being standardized by W3C and IETF, will enable web browsers as well as client applications to open a bi-directional, full-duplex communication channel with a remote host.
Be sure to check out that MIX11 video!
Although, I am not that skilled in ASP.Net, this problem can be solved in another way.
Have the server return the name of function you need to execute, then call it in the callback function?
Kinda like this (It is just a typo but)
$.post("yourpage.aspx",
{
d1: "v1"
},
function(data) {
//now the data will hold the name of the function
window[data]();
}
);
Now you can wrap the above code, in the another function, and set up a timer, to check for the response regularly, and execute the function if a condition is matched.
P.S. I have skipped the part, where the scripts check if the condition is matched.
You are doing the best that you can do without getting into something like HTML5 WebSockets which are not really ready for regular usage yet.
Two options:
Welcome to the world of HTTP.
Thats how the browsers work. Client sends a request to the Server and Server responds. There is no other way (for now) to go the other way. It's simple and that's one of the reasons HTTP protocol was so popular.
But now things are changing and HTML5 support web sockets. If you developing for a HTML5 supporting device (latest versions of all browsers + iPhone/iPad support sockets) then websockets is the way to go.
On the other side, you can go with Comet polling (as mentioned by XIII). Basically it client sends a request to the server and waits until server has anything to respond to. I am not too sure what is a good way of implementing it in ASP.NET (as I think there is a limit of concurrent connections) but it's a pretty useful technique in Nodejs.
