handleWebSocketMessages

def handleWebSocketMessages(handler: Flow[Message, Message, Any]): Route

Description

The directive first checks if the request was a valid WebSocket handshake request and if yes, it completes the request with the passed handler. Otherwise, the request is rejected with an ExpectedWebSocketRequestRejectionExpectedWebSocketRequestRejection.

WebSocket subprotocols offered in the Sec-WebSocket-Protocol header of the request are ignored. If you want to support several protocols use the handleWebSocketMessagesForProtocol directive, instead.

For more information about the WebSocket support, see Server-Side WebSocket Support.

Example

Scala

copysourcedef greeter: Flow[Message, Message, Any] =
  Flow[Message].mapConcat {
    case tm: TextMessage =>
      TextMessage(Source.single("Hello ") ++ tm.textStream ++ Source.single("!")) :: Nil
    case bm: BinaryMessage =>
      // ignore binary messages but drain content to avoid the stream being clogged
      bm.dataStream.runWith(Sink.ignore)
      Nil
  }
val websocketRoute =
  path("greeter") {
    handleWebSocketMessages(greeter)
  }

// tests:
// create a testing probe representing the client-side
val wsClient = WSProbe()

// WS creates a WebSocket request for testing
WS("/greeter", wsClient.flow) ~> websocketRoute ~>
  check {
    // check response for WS Upgrade headers
    isWebSocketUpgrade shouldEqual true

    // manually run a WS conversation
    wsClient.sendMessage("Peter")
    wsClient.expectMessage("Hello Peter!")

    wsClient.sendMessage(BinaryMessage(ByteString("abcdef")))
    wsClient.expectNoMessage(100.millis)

    wsClient.sendMessage("John")
    wsClient.expectMessage("Hello John!")

    wsClient.sendCompletion()
    wsClient.expectCompletion()
  }

Java

copysourceimport static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.path;
import static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.handleWebSocketMessages;

final Flow<Message, Message, NotUsed> greeter = Flow.of(Message.class).mapConcat(msg -> {
  if (msg instanceof TextMessage) {
    final TextMessage tm = (TextMessage) msg;
    final TextMessage ret = TextMessage.create(Source.single("Hello ").concat(tm.getStreamedText()).concat(Source.single("!")));
    return Collections.singletonList(ret);
  } else if (msg instanceof BinaryMessage) {
    final BinaryMessage bm = (BinaryMessage) msg;
    bm.getStreamedData().runWith(Sink.ignore(), materializer());
    return Collections.emptyList();
  } else {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported message type!");
  }
});

final Route websocketRoute = path("greeter", () ->
  handleWebSocketMessages(greeter)
);

// create a testing probe representing the client-side
final WSProbe wsClient = WSProbe.create(system(), materializer());

// WS creates a WebSocket request for testing
testRoute(websocketRoute).run(WS(Uri.create("/greeter"), wsClient.flow(), materializer()))
  .assertStatusCode(StatusCodes.SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS);

// manually run a WS conversation
wsClient.sendMessage("Peter");
wsClient.expectMessage("Hello Peter!");

wsClient.sendMessage(BinaryMessage.create(ByteString.fromString("abcdef")));
wsClient.expectNoMessage(FiniteDuration.create(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS));

wsClient.sendMessage("John");
wsClient.expectMessage("Hello John!");

wsClient.sendCompletion();
wsClient.expectCompletion();