Is it possible to send a message to specific session?
I have an unauthenticated websocket between clients and a Spring servlet. I need to send an unsolicited message to a specific connection when an async job ends.
@Controller
public class WebsocketTest {
@Autowired
public SimpMessageSendingOperations messagingTemplate;
ExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
@MessageMapping("/start")
public void start(SimpMessageHeaderAccessor accessor) throws Exception {
String applicantId=accessor.getSessionId();
executor.submit(() -> {
//... slow job
jobEnd(applicantId);
});
}
public void jobEnd(String sessionId){
messagingTemplate.convertAndSend("/queue/jobend"); //how to send only to that session?
}
}
As you can see in this code, the client can start an async job and when it finishes, it needs the end message. Obviously, I need to message only the applicant and not broadcast to everyone.
It would be great to have an @SendToSession annotation or messagingTemplate.convertAndSendToSession method.
UPDATE
I tried this:
messagingTemplate.convertAndSend("/queue/jobend", true, Collections.singletonMap(SimpMessageHeaderAccessor.SESSION_ID_HEADER, sessionId));
But this broadcasts to all sessions, not only the one specified.
UPDATE 2
Test with convertAndSendToUser() method. This test is and hack of the official Spring tutorial: https://spring.io/guides/gs/messaging-stomp-websocket/
This is the server code:
@Controller
public class WebsocketTest {
@PostConstruct
public void init(){
ScheduledExecutorService statusTimerExecutor=Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
statusTimerExecutor.scheduleAtFixedRate(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
messagingTemplate.convertAndSendToUser("1","/queue/test", new Return("test"));
}
}, 5000,5000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}
@Autowired
public SimpMessageSendingOperations messagingTemplate;
}
and this is the client code:
function connect() {
var socket = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:8080/hello');
stompClient = Stomp.over(socket);
stompClient.connect({}, function(frame) {
setConnected(true);
console.log('Connected: ' + frame);
stompClient.subscribe('/user/queue/test', function(greeting){
console.log(JSON.parse(greeting.body));
});
});
}
Unfortunately client doesn't receive its per-session reply every 5000ms as expected. I'm sure that "1" is a valid sessionId for the 2nd client connected because I see it in debug mode with SimpMessageHeaderAccessor.getSessionId()
BACKGROUND SCENARIO
I want to create a progress bar for a remote job, client asks server for an async job and it checks its progress by websocket message sent from server. This is NOT a file upload but a remote computation, so only server knows the progress of each job. I need to send a message to specific session because each job is started by session. Client asks for a remote computation Server starts this job and for every job step reply to applicant client with its job progress status. Client gets messages about its job and build up a progress/status bar. This is why I need a per-session messages. I could also use a per-user messages, but Spring does not provide per user unsolicited messages. (Cannot send user message with Spring Websocket)
WORKING SOLUTION
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Starting from the UPDATE2 solution I had to complete convertAndSendToUser method with last param (MessageHeaders):
messagingTemplate.convertAndSendToUser("1","/queue/test", new Return("test"), createHeaders("1"));
where createHeaders() is this method:
private MessageHeaders createHeaders(String sessionId) {
SimpMessageHeaderAccessor headerAccessor = SimpMessageHeaderAccessor.create(SimpMessageType.MESSAGE);
headerAccessor.setSessionId(sessionId);
headerAccessor.setLeaveMutable(true);
return headerAccessor.getMessageHeaders();
}
