How to share common classes between server and client?

[tiagolr]

Hi, the way I'm organizing i like to have multiple folders inside src directory.

• src
  • client
  • server
  • shared

The trouble is how to share classes between server and client (example interfaces), the way i found is to add "server" and "client" packages to the files.

It has the disadvantage that its possible to import client package files into server and vice versa, for now I'm using a small check like #if client error #end on server package files.

Is there a more elegant solution for this? Thank you very much.

[jasononeil]

What are you hoping for specifically?

I use a similar structure normally:

• src
  • client/
  • server/
  • app/ or $appName/ (shared)

In general I just make sure that the server code doesn't call anything in client/, and the client code doesn't call anything in server/, and that everything in app/ is able to be compiled on either platform.

So this is much the same as what you're doing. I don't put a #if client error #end in there, but it will usually fail to compile, saying "package js not available on target neko" or something like that.

Do you think there is a better way to handle it?

[tiagolr]

Well its no big difference then, looking at ufront/hello structure i was not sure where to place the client.

Anyway for at least two projects I'm using client, server and shared folders with every file on them, need to place an extra package on every file and change hxml main to server.Server and client.Client.

Let me know if you think its ok to commit this approach, for me its cleaner but its a preference really.

** Edit ** - It may also be possible to add some macro in the future to check if server package classes contain client and vice versa and print a warning or something like that.

[tiagolr]

Duh, it took me several years of haxe and editing several times the ufront example to find what i was looking for: multiple classpaths..

-D server
-cp src/server
-cp src/shared

-D client
-cp src/client
-cp src/shared

..... was worth it at least! Saw it on tests.hxml, was just what i was looking for.