How can Socket.io and RESTFul work together?

Question

(I\'m not familiar to RESTFul, please correct me if my concept is wrong)

In RESTFul architecture, we map every action to an URL. If I click \"post a article\", may i

Answer 1

You're defining a handler for actions that map to REST over http. POST and GET generally refer to update and query over an entity. There's absolutely no reason you can't just define a handler for generic versions of these CRUD operations that can be used in both contexts. The way I generally do this is by introducing the concept of a 'route' to the real-time transport, and mapping those back to the same CRUD handlers.

You have a session, you can impose the same ACL, etc.

 +---------------------------------+
 |                                 |
 |      BROWSER                    |
 |                                 |
 +--+--^-------------------+---^---+
    |  |                   |   |
    |  |                   |   |
 +--v--+---+            +--v---+---+
 |         |            |          |
 | HTTP    |            | SOCKET.IO|
 +--+---^--+            +--+---^---+
    |   |                  |   |
 +--v---+------------------v---+---+
 |                                 |
 |        ROUTING/PUBSUB           |
 +-+--^-------+--^-------+--^------+
   |  |       |  |       |  |
 +-v--+--+  +-v--+--+  +-v--+-+
 |       |  |       |  |      |
 | USERS |  | ITEMS |  |ETC   |
 +-------+  +-------+  +------+
     ENTITY CRUD HANDLERS