Using the WebRTC Data API | WebRTC Blueprints

A simple file-sharing service – the browser application

The client code of our new application is very similar to the previous application in some parts. Nevertheless, it will be significantly different in the core side, so we will rework it and discuss it in detail in this chapter.

The WebRTC API wrapper

We developed a wrapper for the WebRTC API in the previous chapter, so now it will be even easier to do the same for our new application. Now we will add some new code relevant to the Data API and for HTML5-specific API functions, which will be useful for file I/O operations, by performing the following steps:

Create the www/myrtclib.js file as we already did in Chapter 1, Developing a WebRTC Application. We need to declare an entity to control the WebRTC peer connection API. Using the myrtcadapter.js library, we will detect the browser type and version, and assign a relevant API function to this entity.
We also need to detect the web browser's version in order to handle it appropriately by...

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WebRTC Blueprints

By : Andrii Sergiienko

WebRTC Blueprints

By: Andrii Sergiienko

Overview of this book

A simple file-sharing service – the browser application

The WebRTC API wrapper

WebRTC Blueprints

By : Andrii Sergiienko

WebRTC Blueprints

By: Andrii Sergiienko

Overview of this book

A simple file-sharing service – the browser application

The WebRTC API wrapper

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