angular-activity-monitor

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An activity monitoring service and activity monitor directive. It's cool!

Components:

1. A monitoring service that plugs into your controller
2. A directive that subscribes to a monitoring service ('namespaced')

Monitoring Service:

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Service Provider (injected into controller or directive)

Methods:

• createServiceInstance('service.instance.name')
  • returns the service instance
• getServiceInstance('service.instance.name')
  • returns undefined if no match is found
  • returns the service instance if it exists
• getServiceInstancesStartingWith('service')
  • returns array of all service instances starting with 'service'
  • returns an empty array if no matches found

Service Object

#####private attributes

• propertiesToWatch
  • the properties that we wish to watch
• lastSynchronizedObj
  • the latest thing we know about the object from the server
• watchDestroyers
  • array of functions to kill the $watch-es on propertiesToWatch
• updateInProgress
  • an update is currently being sent and has not returned yet
• updateQueued
  • an update is currently being sent AND the next update is already waiting to be sent

Methods:

• init(arrayOfPropertiesToWatch, referenceToScopeObjToWatch, initialObjValues)
  • ['hourly_wage', 'training_hourly_wage']
  • $scope.usersPosition
  • {hourly_wage: 0, training_hourly_wage: 0}
• monitoringOn()
  • turn on the watches on the properties above
• monitoringOff()
  • turn off the watches on the properties above
• isMonitoring()
  • are the watches on or off?
  • _.any(watchDestroyers, _.isUndefined);
• updateSynchronizedState(obj)
  • update the lastSynchronized object
  • lastSynchronizedObj = obj;
• queueUpdate(theUpdateFunctionToCall)
  • returns a GUID for that request
  • checks whether there is an update already going on. If so, watches updateInProgress. When watch goes off and updateInProgress === false then call theUpdateFunctionToCall
  • if updateInProgress === false then just call theUpdateFunctionToCall
• requestCompleted(theRequestsGuid, dataFromUpdate)