dispatcher.js

This is the script which used on 10minutemail.com for temporary email.

/**
 * Class that is used by generated stubs to make actual AJAX calls
 *
 * @category    HTML
 * @package 	AJAX
 * @author	Joshua Eichorn <[e-mail]>
 * @copyright   2005 Joshua Eichorn
 * @license 	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php  LGPL
 */
function HTML_AJAX_Dispatcher(className,mode,callback,serverUrl,serializerType) 
{
	this.className = className;
	this.mode = mode;
	this.callback = callback;
	this.serializerType = serializerType;

	if (serverUrl) {
		this.serverUrl = serverUrl
	}
	else {
		this.serverUrl = window.location;
	}
}

HTML_AJAX_Dispatcher.prototype = {
	/**
	 * Queue to use when making a request
	 */
	queue: 'default',

	/**
	 * Timeout for async calls
	 */
	timeout: 20000,
 
	/**
	 * Default request priority
	 */
	priority: 0,

	/**
	 * Request options 
	 */
	options: {},
	
	/**
	 * Make an ajax call
	 *
	 * @param   string callName
	 * @param   Array   args	arguments to the report method
	 */
	doCall: function(callName,args) 
	{
		var request = new HTML_AJAX_Request();
		request.requestUrl = this.serverUrl;
		request.className = this.className;
		request.methodName = callName;
		request.timeout = this.timeout;
		request.contentType = this.contentType;
		request.serializer = eval('new HTML_AJAX_Serialize_'+this.serializerType);
		request.queue = this.queue;
		request.priority = this.priority;

		for(var i in this.options) {
			request[i] = this.options[i];
		}
		
		for(var i=0; i < args.length; i++) {
			request.addArg(i,args[i]);
		};

		if ( this.mode == "async" ) {
			request.isAsync = true;
			if (this.callback[callName]) {
				var self = this;
				request.callback = function(result) { self.callback[callName](result); }
			}

		} else {
			request.isAsync = false;
		}

		return HTML_AJAX.makeRequest(request);
	},

	Sync: function() 
	{
		this.mode = 'sync';
	},

	Async: function(callback)
	{
		this.mode = 'async';
		if (callback) {
			this.callback = callback;
		}
	}
};