@theia/core/src/electron-browser/messaging/electron-ipc-connection-provider.ts

Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.

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import { injectable, interfaces } from 'inversify';
import { RpcProxy } from '../../common/messaging';
import { AbstractConnectionProvider } from '../../common/messaging/abstract-connection-provider';
import { AbstractChannel, Channel, WriteBuffer } from '../../common';
import { Uint8ArrayReadBuffer, Uint8ArrayWriteBuffer } from '../../common/message-rpc/uint8-array-message-buffer';

export interface ElectronIpcOptions {
}

/**
 * Connection provider between the Theia frontend and the electron-main process via IPC.
 */
@injectable()
export class ElectronIpcConnectionProvider extends AbstractConnectionProvider<ElectronIpcOptions> {

    static override createProxy<T extends object>(container: interfaces.Container, path: string, arg?: object): RpcProxy<T> {
        return container.get(ElectronIpcConnectionProvider).createProxy<T>(path, arg);
    }

    constructor() {
        super();
        this.initializeMultiplexer();
    }

    protected createMainChannel(): Channel {
        return new ElectronIpcRendererChannel();
    }

}

export class ElectronIpcRendererChannel extends AbstractChannel {

    constructor() {
        super();
        this.toDispose.push(window.electronTheiaCore.onData(data => this.onMessageEmitter.fire(() => new Uint8ArrayReadBuffer(data))));

    }

    getWriteBuffer(): WriteBuffer {
        const writer = new Uint8ArrayWriteBuffer();
        writer.onCommit(buffer => window.electronTheiaCore.sendData(buffer));
        return writer;
    }

}