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Small demo app using Node.Js/Socket.IO/MongoDB/D3.Js and jQuery.
/**
 * socket.io
 * Copyright(c) 2011 LearnBoost <dev@learnboost.com>
 * MIT Licensed
 */

(function (exports, io) {

  /**
   * Parser namespace.
   *
   * @namespace
   */

  var parser = exports.parser = {};

  /**
   * Packet types.
   */

  var packets = parser.packets = [
      'disconnect'
    , 'connect'
    , 'heartbeat'
    , 'message'
    , 'json'
    , 'event'
    , 'ack'
    , 'error'
    , 'noop'
  ];

  /**
   * Errors reasons.
   */

  var reasons = parser.reasons = [
      'transport not supported'
    , 'client not handshaken'
    , 'unauthorized'
  ];

  /**
   * Errors advice.
   */

  var advice = parser.advice = [
      'reconnect'
  ];

  /**
   * Shortcuts.
   */

  var JSON = io.JSON
    , indexOf = io.util.indexOf;

  /**
   * Encodes a packet.
   *
   * @api private
   */

  parser.encodePacket = function (packet) {
    var type = indexOf(packets, packet.type)
      , id = packet.id || ''
      , endpoint = packet.endpoint || ''
      , ack = packet.ack
      , data = null;

    switch (packet.type) {
      case 'error':
        var reason = packet.reason ? indexOf(reasons, packet.reason) : ''
          , adv = packet.advice ? indexOf(advice, packet.advice) : '';

        if (reason !== '' || adv !== '')
          data = reason + (adv !== '' ? ('+' + adv) : '');

        break;

      case 'message':
        if (packet.data !== '')
          data = packet.data;
        break;

      case 'event':
        var ev = { name: packet.name };

        if (packet.args && packet.args.length) {
          ev.args = packet.args;
        }

        data = JSON.stringify(ev);
        break;

      case 'json':
        data = JSON.stringify(packet.data);
        break;

      case 'connect':
        if (packet.qs)
          data = packet.qs;
        break;

      case 'ack':
        data = packet.ackId
          + (packet.args && packet.args.length
              ? '+' + JSON.stringify(packet.args) : '');
        break;
    }

    // construct packet with required fragments
    var encoded = [
        type
      , id + (ack == 'data' ? '+' : '')
      , endpoint
    ];

    // data fragment is optional
    if (data !== null && data !== undefined)
      encoded.push(data);

    return encoded.join(':');
  };

  /**
   * Encodes multiple messages (payload).
   *
   * @param {Array} messages
   * @api private
   */

  parser.encodePayload = function (packets) {
    var decoded = '';

    if (packets.length == 1)
      return packets[0];

    for (var i = 0, l = packets.length; i < l; i++) {
      var packet = packets[i];
      decoded += '\ufffd' + packet.length + '\ufffd' + packets[i];
    }

    return decoded;
  };

  /**
   * Decodes a packet
   *
   * @api private
   */

  var regexp = /([^:]+):([0-9]+)?(\+)?:([^:]+)?:?([\s\S]*)?/;

  parser.decodePacket = function (data) {
    var pieces = data.match(regexp);

    if (!pieces) return {};

    var id = pieces[2] || ''
      , data = pieces[5] || ''
      , packet = {
            type: packets[pieces[1]]
          , endpoint: pieces[4] || ''
        };

    // whether we need to acknowledge the packet
    if (id) {
      packet.id = id;
      if (pieces[3])
        packet.ack = 'data';
      else
        packet.ack = true;
    }

    // handle different packet types
    switch (packet.type) {
      case 'error':
        var pieces = data.split('+');
        packet.reason = reasons[pieces[0]] || '';
        packet.advice = advice[pieces[1]] || '';
        break;

      case 'message':
        packet.data = data || '';
        break;

      case 'event':
        try {
          var opts = JSON.parse(data);
          packet.name = opts.name;
          packet.args = opts.args;
        } catch (e) { }

        packet.args = packet.args || [];
        break;

      case 'json':
        try {
          packet.data = JSON.parse(data);
        } catch (e) { }
        break;

      case 'connect':
        packet.qs = data || '';
        break;

      case 'ack':
        var pieces = data.match(/^([0-9]+)(\+)?(.*)/);
        if (pieces) {
          packet.ackId = pieces[1];
          packet.args = [];

          if (pieces[3]) {
            try {
              packet.args = pieces[3] ? JSON.parse(pieces[3]) : [];
            } catch (e) { }
          }
        }
        break;

      case 'disconnect':
      case 'heartbeat':
        break;
    };

    return packet;
  };

  /**
   * Decodes data payload. Detects multiple messages
   *
   * @return {Array} messages
   * @api public
   */

  parser.decodePayload = function (data) {
    // IE doesn't like data[i] for unicode chars, charAt works fine
    if (data.charAt(0) == '\ufffd') {
      var ret = [];

      for (var i = 1, length = ''; i < data.length; i++) {
        if (data.charAt(i) == '\ufffd') {
          ret.push(parser.decodePacket(data.substr(i + 1).substr(0, length)));
          i += Number(length) + 1;
          length = '';
        } else {
          length += data.charAt(i);
        }
      }

      return ret;
    } else {
      return [parser.decodePacket(data)];
    }
  };

})(
    'undefined' != typeof io ? io : module.exports
  , 'undefined' != typeof io ? io : module.parent.exports
);

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