Push message from Java with Spring 4 WebSocket

Question

I'd like to push messages from Java to WebSocket clients. I've successfully made a js client send to the server and receive a message back on 2 js clients, so the client side code works fine.

My issue is that I'd like to initiate a send when events occur within the Java app. So for example every time 10 orders have been placed send a message to all subscribed clients. Is this possible?

My current config:

<websocket:message-broker application-destination-prefix="/app">
   <websocket:stomp-endpoint path="/hello">
        <websocket:sockjs/>
   </websocket:stomp-endpoint>
   <websocket:simple-broker prefix="/topic"/>
</websocket:message-broker>

@Controller
public class MessageController {
    @MessageMapping("/hello")
    @SendTo("/topic/greetings")
    public Greeting greeting() throws Exception {
       return new Greeting("Hello world");
    }
}

What I'd like to be able to do is something like this:

public class OrderManager {
    @Autowired MessageController messageController;
    int orderCount = 0;

    public void processOrder(Order o) {
        orderCount++;
        if(orderCount % 10 == 0)
            messageController.greeting();
    }
}

and all subscribed clients to the websocket receive a message.

riddle_me_this · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-10 03:34:03Z

7

You can use the SimpMessagingTemplate. It's automatically registered. Just autowire it in any Spring bean you want.

@Autowired
private SimpMessagingTemplate template;
...
this.template.convertAndSend("/topic/greetings", text);

edited Dec 10, 2015 at 3:34

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2 Comments

An Illusion Over a year ago

I implemented your approach and now I get an exception 'Failed to start bean subProtocolWebSocketHandler'. I have created a post about it. Please take a look if you can. Thanks. stackoverflow.com/questions/37638396/…

Afroz Shaikh Over a year ago

hi, i have done the same process but my websocket is not called, i dont have any error.

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