APE Server API enhancements

Out of the box the APE Server + APS environment supports the official Server API plus some enhancements that the APS framework brings.

• Originally setTimeout, clearTimeout, setInterval, clearInterval are methods of the global Ape object. For example Ape.setTimeout() can now be called as setTimeout() instead like any other JavaScript environment.

• The setProperty() and getProperty methods for user and channel objects have been condensed into a single method prop(). If you are familiar with jQuery, it works similar to the jQuery.prop() function:

  • user.prop("name", "Pablo") sets the user's name public property to Pablo
  • user.prop("name") gets/returns the user's name public property value, returns false if not defined
  • user.prop() returns an array of all the user's public properties
    
    

• New method Ape.getUserByName(), gets an user object by its name. Users must connect to the APE server with a name property in order to be added to the lookup array of getUserByName().

• Enhanced Ape.log() function. When an object is passed to the log function its source is now the output instead of displaying something like [Object]

• The Function.prototype.bind polyfill is added for older spidermonkey builds.