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awful-sse

Description

A CHICKEN Scheme module for Awful web framework that provides Server-Sent Events according to http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/ specification.

Author

Arthur Maciel

Requirements

Requires awful, spiffy and intarweb eggs.

Documentation

From Wikipedia: "Server-sent events (SSE) is a technology for where a browser gets automatic updates from a server via HTTP connection. The Server-Sent Events EventSource API is standardized as part of HTML5 by the W3C. [It] is a standard describing how servers can initiate data transmission towards clients once an initial client connection has been established. They are commonly used to send message updates or continuous data streams to a browser client and designed to enhance native, cross-browser streaming through a JavaScript API called EventSource, through which a client requests a particular URL in order to receive an event stream." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events)

Note: if you need a full-duplex communication channel over a single TCP connection, please consider using Websockets.

To see the magic happening with SSE, try the examples.

Procedures

define-page/sse path contents sse-path sse-proc #!key css title doctype headers charset no-ajax no-template no-session no-db vhost-root-path no-javascript-compression use-ajax (method '(GET HEAD)) (use-sxml not-set) use-sessionprocedure

Define two awful pages:

  • The "client page" that is accessed via path and presents contents. It is a "normal" awful page and should be used as the link presented to the client;
  • The "server page" that should be accessed by the "client page" via sse-path using the appropiate Javascript code (see Examples section). This page will run sse-proc.

Note that sse-proc should keep the connection open, so usually it is an infinite loop. In order to avoid CPU consumption this loop should sleep some seconds and, for that, be sure to use SRFI-18 thread-sleep! instead of blocking sleep procedure.

send-sse-data data #!key event idprocedure

Send data from server to the client using the current HTTP connection. event and id keywords are used to set the data type and unique id respectively. When there is no event field set, the client understands the data type is "message". id is also optional.

send-sse-retry millisecondsprocedure

Send the "retry: milliseconds" message to define the reconnection timeout for the client.

Examples

Time server

Run with awful example1.scm. On web browser open http://localhost:8080/client and watch the new time coming each second from the server.

(use awful-sse awful spiffy posix srfi-18)

(define (sse-proc)
  (let loop ()
    (send-sse-data (seconds->string) id: (random 10) event: "message")
    (thread-sleep! 1)
    (loop)))

(define-page/sse "/client" 
  (lambda ()
    (add-javascript 
     "var source = new EventSource('/sse');
      source.onmessage = function (event) {
          display = document.getElementById('display');
          display.innerHTML = event.data;
      };")

    (add-css "#display { color: blue; }")

    `(div "Current time: "
          (span (@ (id "display")) "")))
  "/sse"
  sse-proc
  use-sxml: #t)

=>  
Current time: Mon Jul 7 22:12:28 2014
Current time: Mon Jul 7 22:12:29 2014
Current time: Mon Jul 7 22:12:30 2014
.
.
SSE and Ajax

Run with awful example2.scm. Open two web browsers and point both to http://localhost:8080/client. Try clicking on the blue and the red div and see them changing their boolean values on *both* browsers.

(use awful-sse awful spiffy json posix srfi-18)

;; Instead of global variables we could use database query for example.
(define one #t)
(define two #f)

(define (swap1!)
  (set! one (not one)))
(define (swap2!)
  (set! two (not two)))

(define (prepare-json one two)
  (with-output-to-string
    (lambda ()
      (json-write (list->vector `(("one" . ,one) ("two" . ,two)))))))

(define (sse-proc)
  (let loop ()
    (send-sse-data (prepare-json one two))
    (thread-sleep! 1)
    (loop)))

(define-page/sse "/client"
  (lambda ()
    (add-javascript
     "var source = new EventSource('/sse');
      source.addEventListener('message', function(e) {
          var data = JSON.parse(e.data);
          document.getElementById('one').innerHTML = data.one;
          document.getElementById('two').innerHTML = data.two;
      }, false);")

    (add-css "div #one, #two { padding: 1em; margin: 1em; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; }")
    
    (ajax "one" 'one 'click
          (lambda ()
  	    (swap1!)))

    (ajax "two" 'two 'click
          (lambda ()
            (swap2!)))
    
    `((div (div (@ (id "one")
                   (style "border-color: blue;"))
                "")
           (div (@ (id "two")
                   (style "border-color: red;"))
		""))))
  "/sse"
  sse-proc
  use-sxml: #t
  use-ajax: #t)

Do you have any useful SSE example? Please share it here!

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License

 Copyright (c) 2014, Arthur Maciel
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