| import { WebSocketSubject, WebSocketSubjectConfig } from './WebSocketSubject'; |
| |
| /** |
| * Wrapper around the w3c-compatible WebSocket object provided by the browser. |
| * |
| * <span class="informal">{@link Subject} that communicates with a server via WebSocket</span> |
| * |
| * `webSocket` is a factory function that produces a `WebSocketSubject`, |
| * which can be used to make WebSocket connection with an arbitrary endpoint. |
| * `webSocket` accepts as an argument either a string with url of WebSocket endpoint, or an |
| * {@link WebSocketSubjectConfig} object for providing additional configuration, as |
| * well as Observers for tracking lifecycle of WebSocket connection. |
| * |
| * When `WebSocketSubject` is subscribed, it attempts to make a socket connection, |
| * unless there is one made already. This means that many subscribers will always listen |
| * on the same socket, thus saving resources. If however, two instances are made of `WebSocketSubject`, |
| * even if these two were provided with the same url, they will attempt to make separate |
| * connections. When consumer of a `WebSocketSubject` unsubscribes, socket connection is closed, |
| * only if there are no more subscribers still listening. If after some time a consumer starts |
| * subscribing again, connection is reestablished. |
| * |
| * Once connection is made, whenever a new message comes from the server, `WebSocketSubject` will emit that |
| * message as a value in the stream. By default, a message from the socket is parsed via `JSON.parse`. If you |
| * want to customize how deserialization is handled (if at all), you can provide custom `resultSelector` |
| * function in {@link WebSocketSubject}. When connection closes, stream will complete, provided it happened without |
| * any errors. If at any point (starting, maintaining or closing a connection) there is an error, |
| * stream will also error with whatever WebSocket API has thrown. |
| * |
| * By virtue of being a {@link Subject}, `WebSocketSubject` allows for receiving and sending messages from the server. In order |
| * to communicate with a connected endpoint, use `next`, `error` and `complete` methods. `next` sends a value to the server, so bear in mind |
| * that this value will not be serialized beforehand. Because of This, `JSON.stringify` will have to be called on a value by hand, |
| * before calling `next` with a result. Note also that if at the moment of nexting value |
| * there is no socket connection (for example no one is subscribing), those values will be buffered, and sent when connection |
| * is finally established. `complete` method closes socket connection. `error` does the same, |
| * as well as notifying the server that something went wrong via status code and string with details of what happened. |
| * Since status code is required in WebSocket API, `WebSocketSubject` does not allow, like regular `Subject`, |
| * arbitrary values being passed to the `error` method. It needs to be called with an object that has `code` |
| * property with status code number and optional `reason` property with string describing details |
| * of an error. |
| * |
| * Calling `next` does not affect subscribers of `WebSocketSubject` - they have no |
| * information that something was sent to the server (unless of course the server |
| * responds somehow to a message). On the other hand, since calling `complete` triggers |
| * an attempt to close socket connection. If that connection is closed without any errors, stream will |
| * complete, thus notifying all subscribers. And since calling `error` closes |
| * socket connection as well, just with a different status code for the server, if closing itself proceeds |
| * without errors, subscribed Observable will not error, as one might expect, but complete as usual. In both cases |
| * (calling `complete` or `error`), if process of closing socket connection results in some errors, *then* stream |
| * will error. |
| * |
| * **Multiplexing** |
| * |
| * `WebSocketSubject` has an additional operator, not found in other Subjects. It is called `multiplex` and it is |
| * used to simulate opening several socket connections, while in reality maintaining only one. |
| * For example, an application has both chat panel and real-time notifications about sport news. Since these are two distinct functions, |
| * it would make sense to have two separate connections for each. Perhaps there could even be two separate services with WebSocket |
| * endpoints, running on separate machines with only GUI combining them together. Having a socket connection |
| * for each functionality could become too resource expensive. It is a common pattern to have single |
| * WebSocket endpoint that acts as a gateway for the other services (in this case chat and sport news services). |
| * Even though there is a single connection in a client app, having the ability to manipulate streams as if it |
| * were two separate sockets is desirable. This eliminates manually registering and unregistering in a gateway for |
| * given service and filter out messages of interest. This is exactly what `multiplex` method is for. |
| * |
| * Method accepts three parameters. First two are functions returning subscription and unsubscription messages |
| * respectively. These are messages that will be sent to the server, whenever consumer of resulting Observable |
| * subscribes and unsubscribes. Server can use them to verify that some kind of messages should start or stop |
| * being forwarded to the client. In case of the above example application, after getting subscription message with proper identifier, |
| * gateway server can decide that it should connect to real sport news service and start forwarding messages from it. |
| * Note that both messages will be sent as returned by the functions, they are by default serialized using JSON.stringify, just |
| * as messages pushed via `next`. Also bear in mind that these messages will be sent on *every* subscription and |
| * unsubscription. This is potentially dangerous, because one consumer of an Observable may unsubscribe and the server |
| * might stop sending messages, since it got unsubscription message. This needs to be handled |
| * on the server or using {@link publish} on a Observable returned from 'multiplex'. |
| * |
| * Last argument to `multiplex` is a `messageFilter` function which should return a boolean. It is used to filter out messages |
| * sent by the server to only those that belong to simulated WebSocket stream. For example, server might mark these |
| * messages with some kind of string identifier on a message object and `messageFilter` would return `true` |
| * if there is such identifier on an object emitted by the socket. Messages which returns `false` in `messageFilter` are simply skipped, |
| * and are not passed down the stream. |
| * |
| * Return value of `multiplex` is an Observable with messages incoming from emulated socket connection. Note that this |
| * is not a `WebSocketSubject`, so calling `next` or `multiplex` again will fail. For pushing values to the |
| * server, use root `WebSocketSubject`. |
| * |
| * ### Examples |
| * #### Listening for messages from the server |
| * ```ts |
| * import { webSocket } from "rxjs/webSocket"; |
| * const subject = webSocket("ws://localhost:8081"); |
| * |
| * subject.subscribe( |
| * msg => console.log('message received: ' + msg), // Called whenever there is a message from the server. |
| * err => console.log(err), // Called if at any point WebSocket API signals some kind of error. |
| * () => console.log('complete') // Called when connection is closed (for whatever reason). |
| * ); |
| * ``` |
| * |
| * #### Pushing messages to the server |
| * ```ts |
| * import { webSocket } from "rxjs/webSocket"; |
| * const subject = webSocket('ws://localhost:8081'); |
| * |
| * subject.subscribe(); |
| * // Note that at least one consumer has to subscribe to the created subject - otherwise "nexted" values will be just buffered and not sent, |
| * // since no connection was established! |
| * |
| * subject.next({message: 'some message'}); |
| * // This will send a message to the server once a connection is made. Remember value is serialized with JSON.stringify by default! |
| * |
| * subject.complete(); // Closes the connection. |
| * |
| * subject.error({code: 4000, reason: 'I think our app just broke!'}); |
| * // Also closes the connection, but let's the server know that this closing is caused by some error. |
| * ``` |
| * |
| * #### Multiplexing WebSocket |
| * ```ts |
| * import { webSocket } from "rxjs/webSocket"; |
| * const subject = webSocket('ws://localhost:8081'); |
| * |
| * const observableA = subject.multiplex( |
| * () => ({subscribe: 'A'}), // When server gets this message, it will start sending messages for 'A'... |
| * () => ({unsubscribe: 'A'}), // ...and when gets this one, it will stop. |
| * message => message.type === 'A' // If the function returns `true` message is passed down the stream. Skipped if the function returns false. |
| * ); |
| * |
| * const observableB = subject.multiplex( // And the same goes for 'B'. |
| * () => ({subscribe: 'B'}), |
| * () => ({unsubscribe: 'B'}), |
| * message => message.type === 'B' |
| * ); |
| * |
| * const subA = observableA.subscribe(messageForA => console.log(messageForA)); |
| * // At this moment WebSocket connection is established. Server gets '{"subscribe": "A"}' message and starts sending messages for 'A', |
| * // which we log here. |
| * |
| * const subB = observableB.subscribe(messageForB => console.log(messageForB)); |
| * // Since we already have a connection, we just send '{"subscribe": "B"}' message to the server. It starts sending messages for 'B', |
| * // which we log here. |
| * |
| * subB.unsubscribe(); |
| * // Message '{"unsubscribe": "B"}' is sent to the server, which stops sending 'B' messages. |
| * |
| * subA.unsubscribe(); |
| * // Message '{"unsubscribe": "A"}' makes the server stop sending messages for 'A'. Since there is no more subscribers to root Subject, |
| * // socket connection closes. |
| * ``` |
| * |
| * |
| * @param {string|WebSocketSubjectConfig} urlConfigOrSource The WebSocket endpoint as an url or an object with |
| * configuration and additional Observers. |
| * @return {WebSocketSubject} Subject which allows to both send and receive messages via WebSocket connection. |
| */ |
| export function webSocket<T>(urlConfigOrSource: string | WebSocketSubjectConfig<T>): WebSocketSubject<T> { |
| return new WebSocketSubject<T>(urlConfigOrSource); |
| } |