Question

I would like to implement communication between webworkers. I read the W3C documentation and I found MessageChannel is one of the ways to do it, but while reading MessageChannel I couldn’t understand how to implement communication between workers using messagechannel.

I got this from MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/ie/hh673525(v=vs.85).aspx

Here is also no proper documentation to do it.

I need to know, how can I communicate webworkers using MessageChannel?

Here is the Demo throwing DATA_CLONE_ERR

var worker = new Worker("sub1_worker.js");
    worker.onmessage = function(e) {
        $("#log").append("<br>" + e.data);
    }
    var channel = new MessageChannel();

    worker.postMessage("ping", [channel.port2]);

    channel.port1.onmessage = function(event) {
        // Message is in event.data
        alert("Message is: " + event.data);
    }

    channel.port1.postMessage('hello');



    $("#send1").click(function() {
        var msg = $("#msg").val();
        if (msg && msg != "start")
            worker.postMessage("ping2");

        $("#msg").val("");

    })
    $("#send2").click(function() {
        var msg = $("#msg").val();
        if (msg && msg != "start")
            worker.postMessage("ping3",[channel.port2]);
        $("#msg").val("");

    })

and worker

onmessage = getMessage;

function getMessage(e){

    if(e.ports[0])
    e.ports[0].postMessage("msg from sub worker 1 "+ e.data);
    else
    postMessage("msg from sub worker 1 "+ e.data);
}

Answer 1

after working some time on MessageChannel API. I got solution to communicate webworkers using MessageChannel. Here is a Demo of working code.