Intents: Remote Functionality

Below is an application that takes in raw JSON as an input. And given the selected intent action chosen from the dropdown menu, sends the input off to the remote application to be processed. If the remote application returns a value, it is written to the "output" section of the application.

Without any intent applications opened, there are no intent actions to be called, open one of the pop up applications from the list below the application.

Each intent handling application includes documentation in its GUI regarding the format of data it expects when handling an intent invocation (the "input" section of the IWC Intent Tester below).

Note: While these examples are running on the same domain (codepen), they are not domain bound. You can have a codepen snippet talk to a jsfiddle, plunkr, jsbin, ect. The benefit of the IWC here is minimal overhead for developers in cross domain communication.

IWC Intent Tester

Intent Handling Apps (opens in new window)

These applications register Intent handling functions to the IWC. Their handlers can found available in the dropdown of the application above once the respected application is opened.

IWC Intent Type formats

Intents API: /json/array

Intent handlers registered under the /json/array type/subtype expect the invocation to send an array as it's entity:

var value = [3, 1, "b", 0];
var arrRef = new iwc.intents.Reference("/json/array/sort");

arrRef.invoke(value).then(...);