I did a simple web socket communication with spring 4, STOMP and sock.js, following this https://spring.io/guides/gs/messaging-stomp-websocket/
Now I want to upgrade it to simple chat. My problem is that when user subscribes to new chat room, he should get past messages. I don't know how to capture the moment when he subscribed to send him the list of the messages.
I tried using @MessageMapping annotation, but didn't reach any success:
@Controller
public class WebSocketController {
@Autowired
private SimpMessagingTemplate messagingTemplate;
@MessageMapping("/chat/{chatId}")
public void chat(ChatMessage message, @DestinationVariable String chatId) {
messagingTemplate.convertAndSend("/chat/" + chatId, new ChatMessage("message: " + message.getText()));
}
@SubscribeMapping("/chat")
public void chatInit() {
System.out.println("worked");
int chatId = 1; //for example
messagingTemplate.convertAndSend("/chat/" + chatId, new ChatMessage("connected"));
}
}
Then I created that:
@Controller
public class ApplicationEventObserverController implements ApplicationListener<ApplicationEvent> {
@Override
public void onApplicationEvent(ApplicationEvent applicationEvent) {
System.out.println(applicationEvent);
}
}
It works, but captures all possible events, I don't think it is a good practice.
So, my question can be rephrased: how to send initial data when user subscried to sth?
You can return anything directly to a client when it subscribes to a destination using a @SubscribeMapping
handler method. The returned object won't go to the broker but will be sent directly to the client:
@SubscribeMapping("/chat")
public Collection<ChatMessage> chatInit() {
...
return messages;
}
On the client side:
socket.subscribe("/app/chat", function(message) {
...
});
Check out the chat example on GitHub, which shows this exact scenario.