// Copyright IBM Corp. 2013,2016. All Rights Reserved.
  // Node module: strong-remoting
  // This file is licensed under the Artistic License 2.0.
  // License text available at https://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0
  
  // create a set of shared classes
  var remoting = require('../');
  var SharedClass = remoting.SharedClass
  var remotes = remoting.create();
  var express = require('express');
  var app = express();
  
  // define a class-like object (or constructor)
  var user = {
    greet: function (fn) {
      fn(null, 'hello, world!');
    }
  };
  
  // create a shared class to allow strong-remoting to map
  // http requests to method invocations on your class 
  var userSharedClass = new SharedClass('user', user);
  
  // tell strong-remoting about your greet method
  userSharedClass.defineMethod('greet', {
    isStatic: true, // not an instance method
    returns: [{
      arg: 'msg',
      type: 'string' // define the type of the callback arguments
    }]
  });
  
  // tell strong-remoting about the class
  remotes.addClass(userSharedClass);
  
  // mount the middleware on an express app
  app.use(remotes.handler('rest'));
  
  // create the http server
  require('http')
    .createServer(app)
    .listen(3000);
    
  /*
  
  Test the above with curl or a rest client:
    
    $ node simple.js
    $ curl http://localhost:3000/user/greet 
    # responds as an object, with the msg attribute
    # set to the result of the function
    {
      "msg": "hello, world!"
    }
  
  */