An iOS bridge for sending messages to and from javascript in a UIWebView.

Just open the Xcode project and hit run to see the example application.

See ExampleApp/* for example code. To use it in your own project:

1. Drag the WebViewJavascriptBridge folder into your project.

In the dialog that appears:

• Uncheck "Copy items into destination group's folder (if needed)"
• Select "Create groups for any folders"

2. Import the header file:

   #import "WebViewJavascriptBridge.h"

3. Instantiate a UIWebView and a WebViewJavascriptBridge:

   UIWebView* webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.window.bounds]; WebViewJavascriptBridge* javascriptBridge = [WebViewJavascriptBridge javascriptBridgeForWebView:webView handler:^(id data, WVJBCallback callback) { NSLog(@"Received message from javascript: %@", data); }];

4. Go ahead and send some messages from Objc to javascript:

   [javascriptBridge send:@"Well hello there"]; [javascriptBridge send:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"Foo" forKey:@"Bar"]]; [javascriptBridge send:@"Give me a response, will you?" responseCallback:^(id responseData) { NSLog(@"I got a response! %@", responseData); }];

5. Finally, set up the javascript side of things:

   document.addEventListener('WebViewJavascriptBridgeReady', function onBridgeReady() { WebViewJavascriptBridge.init(function(message, responseCallback) { alert('Received message: ' + message)
   if (responseCallback) { responseCallback("Right back atcha") } }) WebViewJavascriptBridge.send('Hello from the javascript') }, false)

Note: iOS4 support has not yet been tested in v2.

WebViewJavascriptBridge uses NSJSONSerialization by default. If you need iOS 4 support then you can use JSONKit, and add USE_JSONKIT to the preprocessor macros for your project.

Create a javascript bridge for the given UIWebView.

Example:

[WebViewJavascriptBridge javascriptBridgeForWebView:webView handler:^(id data, WVJBCallback responseCallback) {
	NSLog(@"Received message from javascript: %@", data);
	if (responseCallback) {
		responseCallback(@"Right back atcha")
	}
}]

The handler's responseCallback will be a block if javascript sent the message with a function responseCallback, or nil otherwise.

Send a message to javascript. Optionally expect a response by giving a responseCallback block.

Example:

[bridge send:@"Hi"];
[bridge send:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"Foo" forKey:@"Bar"]];
[bridge send:@"I expect a response!" responseCallback:^(id data) {
	NSLog(@"Got response: %@", data);
}];

Register a handler called handlerName. The javascript can then call this handler with WebViewJavascriptBridge.callHandler("handlerName", function(response) { ... }).

Example:

[bridge registerHandler:@"getScreenHeight" handler:^(id data, WVJBResponseCallback responseCallback) {
	responseCallback([NSNumber numberWithInt:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height]);
}];

Call the javascript handler called handlerName. Optionally expect a response by giving a responseCallback block.

Example:

[bridge callHandler:@"showAlert" data:@"Hi from ObjC to JS!"];
[bridge callHandler:@"getCurrentPageUrl" data:nil responseCallback:^(id responseData) {
	NSLog(@"Current UIWebView page URL is: %@", responseData);
}];

Always wait for the WebViewJavascriptBridgeReady DOM event before using WebViewJavascriptBridge.

Example:

document.addEventListener('WebViewJavascriptBridgeReady', function() {
	// Start using WebViewJavascriptBridge
}, false)

Initialize the WebViewJavascriptBridge. This should be called inside of the 'WebViewJavascriptBridgeReady' event handler.

The messageHandler function will receive all messages sent from ObjC via [bridge send:(id)data] and [bridge send:(id)data responseCallback:(WVJBResponseCallback)responseCallback].

The responseCallback will be a function if ObjC sent the message with a WVJBResponseCallback block, or undefined otherwise.

Example:

WebViewJavascriptBridge.init(function(data, responseCallback) {
	alert("Got data " + JSON.stringify(data))
	if (responseCallback) {
		responseCallback("Right back atcha!")
	}
})

Send a message to ObjC. Optionally expect a response by giving a responseCallback function.

Example:

WebViewJavascriptBridge.send("Hi there!")
WebViewJavascriptBridge.send("Hi there!", function(response) {
	alert("I got a response! "+JSON.stringify(response))
})

Register a handler called handlerName. The ObjC can then call this handler with [bridge callHandler:"handlerName" data:@"Foo"] and [bridge callHandler:"handlerName" data:@"Foo" responseCallback:^(id responseData) { ... }]

Example:

WebViewJavascriptBridge.registerHandler("showAlert", function(data) { alert(data) })
WebViewJavascriptBridge.registerHandler("getCurrentPageUrl", function(data, responseCallback) {
	responseCallback(document.location.toString())
})

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