Outline for Dev Coop meetup (June 29th, 2016)

#Elixir chat client & functional programming talk outline http://www.meetup.com/dev-coop/events/232116993/

Review previous weeks
- https://github.com/kblake/functional-programming
- Functional Programming
  - OOP has lead to complex software patterns
  - Multicore, distributed, concurrent world
  - Functions: pure, no side-effects, deterministic
  - Immutability: known data, copy and alter, avoid race-conditions
  - higher order functions: receive and/or return functions
  - recursion, map, reduce, filter, etc.
- Elixir
  - Pipe operator to transform data
  - concurrency
  - distributed
    - nodes
review last time (nodes)

iex --name foonode@<local ip> --cookie monster

> Node.self

iex --name barnode@<local ip> --cookie monster

> Node.ping :”[email protected]”

> Node.list

> greeting = fn -> IO.puts "Hello from #{Node.self}" end

> greeting.()

Easier, Global registry:

> :global.register_name(:one, self)

> :global.registered_names

from other node

> one = :global.whereis_name(:one)

> :global.register_name(:two, self)

receive do 
  msg -> IO.puts msg
end

On node one

> send two, “hello from one”

EchoServer (on two)
defmodule EchoServer do
  def echo do
    receive do
      msg -> IO.puts “Message received: #{msg}”
      echo
    end
  end
end

from node one

> send two, “hello there”

##Chat client:

> mix new chat_client

open chat_client.ex

defmodule ChatClient do
  def hello do
    IO.puts "hello world!!!"
  end
end

mix —name karmen -S mix

> ChatClient.hello

Add this code:

@server_name :chat_server

def server_name do
  @server_name
end

def join_server server_id, cookie \\ :"cookiemonster" do
  Node.set_cookie(Node.self, cookie)
  Node.connect server_id
end

def server do
  :global.whereis_name(server_name)
end

> recompile
> ChatClient.join_server :”[email protected]”
> ChatClient.server

Add code to last line in join_server:

:global.register_name(Node.self, self())

def friends do
  recipients = List.delete :global.registered_names, server_name
  List.delete recipients, Node.self
end

> recompile
> ChatClient.friends

All clients can call friends to see who’s on the network

NEXT: Listen for messages

def message_listener do
  receive do
    {sender, message} ->
      IO.puts "#{sender}: #{message}"
      message_listener
    end
  end
end

IN join_server update/add

pid = spawn(__MODULE__, :message_listener, [])
:global.register_name(Node.self, pid)

Stop REPL, start it, test the message listener

> ChatClient.join_server :”[email protected]”
> send :global.whereis_name(:"karmen@Karmens-MacBook-Pro"), {Node.self, "sup sup"}

ADD broadcast:

def broadcast message do
  send server, {:all, Node.self, message}
  :ok
end

> recompile
> ChatClient.broadcast "hello world"

Direct Message:

def direct_message friend, message do
  send server, {:private_message, Node.self, friend, message}
  :ok
end

> recompile
> ChatClient.friends
> ChatClient.direct_message :"bar@Karmens-MacBook-Pro", "private message"

Final Result:

https://gist.github.com/kblake/f0093c0f9c5d6c02f19af613c777a38c

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