I am trying to initialize a Breeze manager inside a 'Web Worker'.
RequireJs, knockout, q, breeze are being imported inside the worker.
After a call to:EntityQuery.from('name').using(manager).execute()
,
the following error appears:
Uncaught Error: Q is undefined. Are you missing Q.js? See https://github.com/kriskowal/q
.
A live preview is uploaded here http://plnkr.co/edit/meXjKa?p=preview
(plunk supports downloading for easier debug).
EDIT -- relevant code
Worker.js
importScripts('knockout.js', 'q.js', 'breeze.js', 'require.js');
define('jquery', function () { return jQuery; });
define('knockout', ko);
define('q', Q); //Just trying to assign q since breeze requests Q as q
require(function () {
var self = this;
this.q = this.Q; //Just trying to assign q since breeze requests Q as q
breeze.NamingConvention.camelCase.setAsDefault();
var manager = new breeze.EntityManager("breeze/Breeze");
var EntityQuery = breeze.EntityQuery;
// Q or q here is defined (TESTED)
var test = function (name) {
return EntityQuery.from(name)
.using(manager).execute() // <-- Here q/Q breaks (I think on execute)
};
var primeData = function () {
return test('Languages')
.then(test('Lala'))
.then(test('Lala2'))
};
primeData();
setTimeout(function () { postMessage("TestMan"); }, 500);
});
Worker will be initialized on main page as:
var myWorker = new Worker("worker.js");
Ok here it goes:
Create a new requireJs and edit the
isBrowser = !!(typeof window !== 'undefined' && typeof navigator !== 'undefined' && window.document)
to
isBrowser = false
Create a new Jquery so it uses nothing related to window and generally anything that a WebWorker cannot access. Unfortunatelly i can't remember where i got this Custom JQueryJs but i have uploaded it here "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48132252/jqueydemo.js".
Please if you find the author or the original change link and give credit.
My workerJs file looks like:
Finally on my mainJs i have something like:
So we have managed to use breeze on a WebWorker enviroment to fetch and create all of our entities, pass our exported entities to our main breeze manager on the main thread(import).
I have tested this with 9 tables fully related to each other and about 4MB of raw data.
*As it makes sense breeze import entities is way more faster than the creation a full 4MB raw data plus the association process following for these entities.
By having all the heavy work done on the back, and only use import entities on the front, breeze allows you to handle large datasets 'like a breeze'.