#61 start of map store/retrieve, communication channel using websockets

sharedPlugins/remoteMap/index.js

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 const needle = require("needle");
-const moduleConfig = require("./config");
+const io = require("socket.io");
+
+const moduleConfig = require("./config"); // not to be confused with clusterio config. This config is private to this plugin.
 console.log("/silent-command game.print('"+moduleConfig.name+" version "+moduleConfig.version+" enabled')");
 
 /*setInterval(function(){
 	console.log("/silent-command game.write_file('"+moduleConfig.scriptOutputFileSubscription+"', game.tick, true, 0)");
 },1000);*/
+
 var config = {};
 process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
 process.stdin.on('readable', () => {
@@ -17,6 +20,8 @@ process.stdin.on('readable', () => {
 		data.shift();data.shift();data.shift();
 		if(data && data[0] == undefined){
 			// this position is now empty, delete whatever was there from DB
+			console.log("empty: ")
+			console.log(chunk)
 		}
 		data.forEach(entity => {
 			let name = entity.split(" ")[0];
@@ -27,6 +32,11 @@ process.stdin.on('readable', () => {
 	} else {
 		// config is the same config as client.js and master.js uses
 		config = JSON.parse(chunk);
+		// socket should be a global
+		socket = io.connect("http://"+config.masterIP+":"+config.masterPort);
+		socket.on("hello", data => {
+			socket.emit("registerSlaveMapper", {instanceID: config.unique});
+		});
 	}
 });
 process.stdin.on('end', () => {