URLs with specific demo code

[devbali]

This was something we talked about in the Retreat. @JustinAzoff had a plan to have a "try" button on any piece of demo code on the documentation. The most straightforward way to go through with this (that I can think of) would be to get code from a URL parameter. Thoughts?

[JustinAzoff]

There's a few ways to handle this.

As you said there can be a link to try zeek that includes the code snippet in the url. Once followed this will set the current file to the passed snippet and run it. This would be very easy to implement in handleLocationChange, but the max length would be about 2048 chars.

Another way to have something like this work is to just use the api in the documentation. I wrote an example for this a while back using jquery:

https://github.com/zeek/try-zeek/blob/master/client/trybro_embed.js + https://github.com/zeek/try-zeek/blob/master/client/embed.html

You can test that here: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/People/jazoff/bro.html (ignore the bro_init warnings :-))