WebSocketSequentialClient

This ruby gem library allows you to access a WebSocket server in a sequential way instead of an event-driven way.

Features

Provides access to a WebSocket server in a sequential way.
Many gem libraries for WebSocket client use event-driven style.
This style has many advantages, but it's not so easy to understand.
This gem library provides a simple and sequential access to a WebSocket server.
Independent from eventmachine and other frameworks.
You can use this gem library with/without eventmachine and other frameworks.
Eventmachine is a great and useful library, but it uses some global functions, such as EM.run, EM.stop and so on, so it might conflicts with your environment.
This gem library does not depends on any frameworks, so you can use it in your environment.

If you need performance and/or scalability, you should use the other great libraries, such as em-websocket.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'websocket_sequential_client'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install websocket_sequential_client

Usage

Call send and recv to communicate with the server.

require "websocket_sequential_client"

WebSocketSequentialClient::WebSocket.open "ws://server-url" do |ws|
  ws.send "Hello"
  puts ws.recv
end

Note: recv method is a blocking method. It will wait until a message is sent from the server.

More examples

Send and receive text and binary messages.

# coding: utf-8

require "websocket_sequential_client"

ws = WebSocketSequentialClient::WebSocket.new "ws://server-url"

# `send` method guesses whether the argument is text or binary based on the encoding.
# The encoding of "Hello" is UTF-8, so the messages is sent as text.
ws.send "Hello"

# You can also use `send_text` method.
ws.send_text "World"


# The following lines send binary messages
# because the argument has ASCII-8BIT encoding.
ws.send [0,1,2,3].pack("C*")
ws.send "example".b

# Of course, `send_binary` is supported.
ws.send_binary "binary message"


# You can receive messages from the server with `recv`.
# If the server sent "text" message, msg has UTF-8 encoding.
# In the case of "binary" message, msg has ASCII-8BIT encoding.
msg = ws.recv

ws.close

Ping and pong.

ping and pong frames are sent in background, so you need not to handle these frames.

require "websocket_sequential_client"

# `ping` is enabled as default. The interval is 20s.
ws = WebSocketSequentialClient::WebSocket.new "ws://server-url"
#...
ws.close

# You can disable `ping`.
ws = WebSocketSequentialClient::WebSocket.new "ws://server-url", ping: false
#...
ws.close

# You can change the interval of `ping` to 10s.
ws = WebSocketSequentialClient::WebSocket.new "ws://server-url", ping: { interval: 10 }
#...
ws.close

Send additional headers.

You can send additional headers with the request of HTTP handshake.

require "websocket_sequential_client"

# Add "Cookie" field to the HTTP request.
ws = WebSocketSequentialClient::WebSocket.new "ws://server-url", headers: { "Cookie" => "value1" }
#...
ws.close

Versions

1.0.1
Fix handling of optional parameters.
1.0.0
Initial release