Testing the Google Wave Gadget outside of Google Wave?

Question

I wonder if there is an available tool / framework that supports testing Google Wave gadgets outside of Google Wave.

I know these two emulators ( 1 and 2 ), but I still have to download my gadget for every debugging run.

I am looking for a tool that displays the current state, allows you to change the state and send the state back to the gadget.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The two emulators you mentioned can be used as you described. You just need to download it and run it on your local web server. Then you can create your gadgets offline without having to download them every time you want to test.

Here are the links to the source for gadget emulators:

• http://github.com/vidarh/wave-gadget-emulator
• http://github.com/avital/google-wave-gadget-emulator

Answer 2

An implementation of the Google Wave Gadget API is available for the Node.js API, which can be launched as a standalone Wave Gadgets support service that works in any web application.

https://github.com/scottbw/wave-node

Answer 3

This is not 100% easy, but I would recommend setting up your own server on your local computer at the moment, until someone finds out how or takes time to wrap such a server in a convenient one-time file, install the tool.

http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation

Answer 4

Why is it worth it - Google wave was opened in Apache WaveInABox: http://www.waveprotocol.org/wave-in-a-box