Hmm...
I'm going to have to digest your code before I can know if I have any
useful suggestions for improving on your approach for handling timer
events.
As for "relative pathing" ... J was designed to work in an OS
independent fashion, for the most part. But if you want to get the
directory of a script, you can put something like this into it:
getThisDir=:3 :0
({.~ i:&'/') rplc&'\/' ;(4!:3''){~4!:4<'getThisDir'
)
THISDIR=: getThisDir''
This will give you the directory containing the script which contained
the definition of 'getThisDir'. (It will not be useful if you define
'getThisDir' interactively.)
As for TLS, for now I think you would have to use an external
implementation of TLS. The performance improvements which Henry Rich
has been introducing may be making it reasonable to have a J native
implementation of TLS, but that would still be in the future. Going
with a node proxy should be fine for now. But if you don't mind
working with external code (which might mean hooking up to a different
implementation for each OS), you could link to a shared library /
dynamic library / dll that implements the necessary encryption
routines. (But I would save this for when you're mostly satisfied with
the rest of your system.)
I hope this helps,
--
Raul
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 9:31 PM Kauhentus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> High-schooler enthusiast here who's taken up learning J as a hobby. I'm
> currently trying to write a Discord bot in J. I have a working, bare-bones
> prototype here: https://github.com/Kauhentus/disj, but I have a few
> questions.
>
> I'm currently using sockets to do all the internet/network communications,
> but they aren't event-driven. I've resorted to using a clunky while loop
> and constantly blocking/unblocking the thread with sdioctl as needed
> (the API requires a heartbeat every x interval, so completely blocking the
> thread is not an option). Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Also, Discord's API only works via HTTPS. As far as I know, J does not have
> an HTTPS library, so I resorted to using node.js and writing a small
> "proxy". I looked into how one might implement the TLS handshake but it's
> out of my ability. Am I out of luck if I want to write everything using J?
>
> I'm still new to J and 90%+ of my code is not idiomatic, but I'd appreciate
> any feedback and thoughts. Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Josh Y.
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