andrewvy/chrome-remote-interface

Should be able to subscribe to events

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Right now, you can run Page.enable to subscribe to events from the Page domain, but that won't forward any events to the requesting process.

We should add a wrapping function that will allow consumers to subscribe to different domain events.

From looking at other implementations, the API should maybe look like this:

iex(1)> {:ok, server} = ChromeRemoteInterface.Session.start_link()
{:ok, #PID<0.226.0>}
iex(2)> {:ok, page_pid} = ChromeRemoteInterface.Session.checkout_page(server)
{:ok, #PID<0.229.0>}
iex(3)> ChromeRemoteInterface.RPC.Page.enable(page_pid)
{:ok, %{"id" => 1, "result" => %{}}}

ChromeRemoteInterface.Page.subscribe(page_pid, "Page.frameStoppedLoading", subscriber_pid \\ self())

ChromeRemoteInterface.RPC.Page.navigate(page_pid, %{url: "http://google.com"})

flush()

{:chrome_remote_interface, "Page.frameStoppedLoading", %{"method" => "Page.frameStoppedLoading", "params" => %{"frameId" => "98300.1"}}}

That would add a callback for that event to be forwarded to the subscriber pid (defaulting to whoever called subscribe)


We could also provide a blocking call, more akin to GenServer.call with timeout functionality if an event hasn't fired after X seconds, for synchronous use-cases. (This is what we do for regular RPC calls anyways.)

{:ok, response} = ChromeRemoteInterface.Page.await(page_pid, "Page.frameStoppedLoading", timeout // 5000)

Closing now. Moving synchronous event handling to #11.