myFayeClient.connect(function() {
    // code goes here
});

connect() simply makes sure there is a connection before running the callback function.

Have a question though. In, for example, cometd, on the client (in a browser), the comet client connects and waits until the connection is confirmed before a subscription can be set. Is there a way of knowing when the conneciton is succesfully with faye?

cheers and great work.

This is a first attempt and certainly the timeout needs to be able to be tuned, but let me know what you think.

I’m looking specifically at the case where the server gets restarted during a long-poll request. In this case, there’s no response and the Faye clients simply stop polling. At a minimum, there should be a way to configure the behavior in this case (e.g. “retry every 10 seconds”)

Also, I’d prefer to have a way to adjust the polling frequency of the Faye.XHR readystate check. (10ms strikes me as a bit aggressive.)

… oh, and also, you might consider doing this:

if (self._xhr.readyState !== 4) setTimeout(handleState, 10)

… instead of using setInterval. It’s simpler, and avoids potential issues with multiple setInterval calls getting queued up if CPU performance lags for whatever reason.

// Remote client
client = new Faye.Client('http://example.com/faye');

// Local client
server = new Faye.NodeAdapter(options);
client = server.getClient();

And use the client just like you would in a browser.

You can track progress on this branch: http://github.com/jcoglan/faye/tree/clients