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54 lines
1.7 KiB
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# Master
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For this example, we're going to provide a simple demonstration of how Cylon's
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master functionality works. Cylon can be fed an arbitrary number of robots, and
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it will then take care of all of them, starting and stopping all of them as
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needed.
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First, let's load up Cylon:
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var Cylon = require('../..');
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With that in place, now we can start defining our robots. They'll all behave
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similarly, but have unique characteristics (their name), so let's
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define an array to hold these names for now. Later, we can instantiate
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a base robot and change it's attributes as needed.
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var bots = [ 'Huey', 'Dewey', 'Louie' ];
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Now we can define our `MinionBot` class. This will be the base
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class for all three of the robots.
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var MinionBot = (function() {
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function MinionBot() {};
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We'll just give our robots some basic work so we can tell they're actually
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working:
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MinionBot.prototype.work = function(my) {
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console.log("Robot " + my.name + " is now working!");
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};
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return MinionBot;
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})();
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And that's all we need for that.
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Next up, we'll create Cylon robots by making an instance of the `MinionBot`
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class, and modifying the attributes that are unique to each robot. After the
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customized robot is ready, we'll feed it into Cylon.
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for (var i = 0; i < bots.length; i++) {
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var robot = new MinionBot;
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robot.name = bots[i];
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Cylon.robot(robot);
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}
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And now Cylon knows about all the robots we care about for this example, and
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what they do. All that's left is to start them all. The `.start()` method on
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Cylon triggers the `.start()` command on all the robots we've told Cylon about,
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so all three robots will start at once.
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Cylon.start();
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