How to use Akka-HTTP client websocket send message - scala

Question

I'm trying client-side websocket by following doc at webSocketClientFlow.
sample code is:
import akka.actor.ActorSystem
import akka.Done
import akka.http.scaladsl.Http
import akka.stream.ActorMaterializer
import akka.stream.scaladsl._
import akka.http.scaladsl.model._
import akka.http.scaladsl.model.ws._
import scala.concurrent.Future
object WebSocketClientFlow {
def main(args: Array[String]) = {
implicit val system = ActorSystem()
implicit val materializer = ActorMaterializer()
import system.dispatcher
// Future[Done] is the materialized value of Sink.foreach,
// emitted when the stream completes
val incoming: Sink[Message, Future[Done]] =
Sink.foreach[Message] {
case message: TextMessage.Strict =>
println(message.text)
}
// send this as a message over the WebSocket
val outgoing = Source.single(TextMessage("hello world!"))
// flow to use (note: not re-usable!)
val webSocketFlow = Http().webSocketClientFlow(WebSocketRequest("ws://echo.websocket.org"))
// the materialized value is a tuple with
// upgradeResponse is a Future[WebSocketUpgradeResponse] that
// completes or fails when the connection succeeds or fails
// and closed is a Future[Done] with the stream completion from the incoming sink
val (upgradeResponse, closed) =
outgoing
.viaMat(webSocketFlow)(Keep.right) // keep the materialized Future[WebSocketUpgradeResponse]
.toMat(incoming)(Keep.both) // also keep the Future[Done]
.run()
// just like a regular http request we can access response status which is available via upgrade.response.status
// status code 101 (Switching Protocols) indicates that server support WebSockets
val connected = upgradeResponse.flatMap { upgrade =>
if (upgrade.response.status == StatusCodes.SwitchingProtocols) {
Future.successful(Done)
} else {
throw new RuntimeException(s"Connection failed: ${upgrade.response.status}")
}
}
// in a real application you would not side effect here
connected.onComplete(println)
closed.foreach(_ => println("closed"))
}
}
after had connection upgraded, how to use the connection send message to websocket server side?
I noticed from the doc:
The Flow that is returned by this method can only be materialized once. For each request a new flow must be acquired by calling the method again.
still confused, why we need construct the flow many times since an upgraded connection alrady ready.

Answer 1

You can create an actor based source and send new messages over the established websocket connection.
val req = WebSocketRequest(uri = "ws://127.0.0.1/ws")
val webSocketFlow = Http().webSocketClientFlow(req)
val messageSource: Source[Message, ActorRef] =
Source.actorRef[TextMessage.Strict](bufferSize = 10, OverflowStrategy.fail)
val messageSink: Sink[Message, NotUsed] =
Flow[Message]
.map(message => println(s"Received text message: [$message]"))
.to(Sink.ignore)
val ((ws, upgradeResponse), closed) =
messageSource
.viaMat(webSocketFlow)(Keep.both)
.toMat(messageSink)(Keep.both)
.run()
val connected = upgradeResponse.flatMap { upgrade =>
if (upgrade.response.status == StatusCodes.SwitchingProtocols) {
Future.successful(Done)
} else {
throw new RuntimeException(s"Connection failed: ${upgrade.response.status}")
}
}
ws ! TextMessage.Strict("Hello World")
ws ! TextMessage.Strict("Hi")
ws ! TextMessage.Strict("Yay!")
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