RTI® Connext® DDS is a connectivity software framework for integrating data sources of all types. At its core is the world's leading ultra-high performance, distributed networking databus.
RTI Connector provides a quick and easy way to write applications that publish and subscribe to the RTI Connext DDS databus in JavaScript and other languages.
To get started and learn more about RTI Connector for JavaScript see the documentation here.
The examples/nodejs directory provides several examples:
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simpleshows how to create basic publisher and subscriber applications - In
transformation, an application reads, transforms and publishes back the data -
web_httpshows how an HTTP client can request DDS data using REST -
web_socketshows how to push DDS data to a browser through socket.io
RTI Connector for JavaScript has the following dependencies, which are also listed in package.json:
- ref-napi: turns Buffer instances into "pointers"
- ref-struct-napi: create ABI-compilant "Struct" instances on top of Buffers
- ffi-napi: used for loading and calling dynamic libraries using pure JavaScript
- events: used for the 'EventEmitter' (legacy implementation of RTI Connector)
Additionally to run the web_socket example, socket.io and OpenLayers are required.
Additional dependencies are required to run the unit tests and some of the examples. Please see the README files in the appropriate directory.
Some of the dependencies are shipped as source code and use node-gyp to be compiled locally. node-gyp requires Python 2.7 and does not work with Python 3. The requirements for node-gyp can be found at:
The dependency ref is shipped as source code and requires a C++11 compiler.
RTI Connector for JavaScript and RTI Connector for Python are part of the Connext DDS Professional Package. If you have a valid license for the RTI Connext DDS Professional Package, such license shall govern your use of RTI Connector for Python and RTI Connector for JavaScript. All other use of this software shall be governed solely by the terms of RTI’s Software License for Non-Commercial Use #4040, included at the top level of the `Connector for Python repository
