how to capture connection event in my webSocket server with Spring 4?

Question

I did a simple web socket communication with spring 4,STOMP and sock.js, following this https://github.com/rstoyanchev/spring-websocket-portfolio and this http://assets.spring.io/wp/WebSocketBlogPost.html

well, I want to know if is possible capture connection events like when a new client was connected to my server or when a client was disconnected, is that possible in Spring 4.0.0?

Answer 1

Spring WebSocket publishes events when messages are received from the client, if you are using STOMP, these are the events published:

• SessionConnectedEvent
• SessionConnectEvent
• SessionDisconnectEvent
• SessionSubscribeEvent
• SessionUnsubscribeEvent

The easiest way to detect connects and disconnects is by implementing an event listener for the mentioned events.

@Component
public class WebSocketEventListener {

    @EventListener
    private void handleSessionConnected(SessionConnectEvent event) {
        ...
    }

    @EventListener
    private void handleSessionDisconnect(SessionDisconnectEvent event) {
        ...
    }
}

Here's a sample implementation that keeps track of connected users: https://github.com/salmar/spring-websocket-chat/blob/master/src/main/java/com/sergialmar/wschat/event/PresenceEventListener.java

Answer 2

This an be done with a connection handshake interceptor (HttpSessionHandshakeInterceptor), quoting the documentation:

The easiest way to customize the initial HTTP WebSocket handshake request is through a HandshakeInterceptor, which exposes "before" and "after" the handshake methods.

Answer 3

As I understand, the question with DISCONNECT event is not solved in this topic. Handshake interception gives you only connect info but not disconnect.

I have achieved this with the interceptors of inbound channel:

<websocket:message-broker>
    ...
    <websocket:client-inbound-channel>
        <websocket:interceptors>
            <bean class="com......MyChannelInterception"></bean>
        </websocket:interceptors>
    </websocket:client-inbound-channel>
</websocket:message-broker>

...and class...

import java.security.Principal;

import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.messaging.Message;
import org.springframework.messaging.MessageChannel;
import org.springframework.messaging.MessageHeaders;
import org.springframework.messaging.simp.SimpMessageType;
import org.springframework.messaging.support.ChannelInterceptorAdapter;

public class MyChannelInterception extends ChannelInterceptorAdapter {

private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger(WrcChannelInterception.class);

@Override
public Message<?> preSend(Message<?> message, MessageChannel channel) {

    MessageHeaders headers = message.getHeaders();
    SimpMessageType type = (SimpMessageType) headers.get("simpMessageType");
    String simpSessionId = (String) headers.get("simpSessionId");

    if (type == SimpMessageType.CONNECT) {
        Principal principal = (Principal) headers.get("simpUser");
        LOGGER.debug("WsSession " + simpSessionId + " is connected for user " + principal.getName());
    } else if (type == SimpMessageType.DISCONNECT) {
        LOGGER.debug("WsSession " + simpSessionId + " is disconnected");
    }
    return message;
}
}

Please note that Principal is available on CONNECT but not on DISCONNECT, however you have sweet Session ID