Hello everyone, We have a game-application where several players should interact in realtime (i.e. change attributes of a "game"-object, which is a django model instance). To my knowledge, best / easiest method for this problem would be AJAX-polling several times per second, to check whether the game has changed or not since the last poll. To avoid waste of bandwidth, we want of course only send the data that has changed since the last poll, not the whole object over and over again. We decided to use dajaxice and jquery.
However, I'm not really sure how to approach that task: - One possiblity would be using the db, writing every change in there and querying it for every poll. Maybe that game-instance will then get cached if we use cache-middleware, but since I've never worked with caching I'm not sure about this and don't feel confident with this approach. - The other possibility would be a global dict (or instance of an own class), let's call it GAMES_ACTIVE, where each active game is stored by its id. Then I could save the 'state' and the 'changes' of the game there. So if player X changes game attributes that others would need to poll, I could update the state and additionally append the new data to a list of changes for each player that yet wasn't polled: GAMES_ACTIVE[game.id]['state'] = game-instance, always up to date GAMES_ACTIVE[game.id]['changes'][player_Y] = [list of not yet polled changes for player Y] As soon as Player Y polls the changes, they are sent to the client, and the 'changes' for player Y is reset to an empty list [] Is this a good way to solve the problem? Any other suggestions? Regards, Andreas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
