REMObjects SDK in Blazor WebAssembly

[infokevercom]

Hello,

Is there any update on using the Remobjects SDK inside a blazor webassembly app? If not, we are going to try to do this ourself.
Any tips on how we can do this?

Thanks in advance!

[mh (marc hoffman)]

There’s been no work been made so far on supporting Remoting SDK (or DA) clients on Blazor, as this would be quite a significant effort, and — tbh — we have not seen the demand to justify it, so far.

At this stage, we’re more likely to look at an improved/revised version of RO/JavaScript to be made usable from (Elements) WebAssembly, or an Island/native RO Client for WebAssembly (and the other platforms), to be honest, then doing Blazor client support. (See How to access to Remoting SDK Server from .Net code in Blazor WebAssembly for infos on Server side use of RO )

I’ll share some details from an internal discussion on the topic from a year or so back:

Adding direct RO SDK for this platform requires:

1. Additional client channel with true Task-based Async support based on HttpClient (this means it won’t be compatible with existing API, have fun with backwards compatibility)
2. It’s own CodeGen (Task-based code generated by existing CodeGen just silently dies on Blazor Client)
3. This CodeGen has to be CG4-based (MS never bothered to add async/await support to CodeDom) → this means porting of 100k of C# code from CodeDom to CG4

DA support:

• RemoteCommand / RemoteRequest changes
• DA LINQ data adapter changes