spring boot rest and angular2 with websocket (stomp over sockjs)

Question

Is it possible to use stomp over sockjs without MVC. So I would like to have spring rest interface in tomcat, and angular2 application run by express.

WebSocketConfig.java

@Configuration
@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
public class WebSocketConfig extends AbstractWebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void registerStompEndpoints(StompEndpointRegistry registry) {
        // the endpoint for websocket connections
        registry.addEndpoint("/portfolio").setAllowedOrigins("*").withSockJS();
    }

    @Override
    public void configureMessageBroker(MessageBrokerRegistry config) {
        config.setApplicationDestinationPrefixes("/app");
        config.enableSimpleBroker("/topic");
    }
}

SocketController.java

@Controller
public class SocketController {

    @Autowired
    private SimpMessagingTemplate template;

    public SocketController() {
        int a = 5;
    }

    @MessageMapping("/greeting")
    public String handle(String greeting) {
        return "[" + "greeting" + ": " + greeting;
    }
}

and typescript code:

. . .

constructor() {

        var socket = new SockJS('http://localhost:8080/portfolio');
        this.stompClient = Stomp.over(socket);
        this.stompClient.connect("guest", "guest", function(frame) {
            console.log('Connected: ' + frame);
            this.stompClient.subscribe('http://localhost:8080/topic/greeting', function(greeting) {
                console.log("from from", greeting);
            });
        }, function (err) {
            console.log('err', err);
        });
    }

. . .

send() {
    this.stompClient.send("http://localhost:8080/app/greeting", {}, JSON.stringify({ 'name': "kitica" }));
}

. . .

but for some reason this is not working.. in console I get output:

Opening Web Socket...
stomp.js:134 Web Socket Opened...
stomp.js:134 >>> CONNECT
login:guest
passcode:guest
accept-version:1.1,1.0
heart-beat:10000,10000



stomp.js:134 <<< CONNECTED
version:1.1
heart-beat:0,0



stomp.js:134 connected to server undefined
activity-socket.ts:17 Connected: CONNECTED
heart-beat:0,0
version:1.1

and when I send I get

>>> SEND
destination:http://localhost:8080/app/greeting
content-length:17

{"name":"kitica"}

but message never comes back to subscriber.

angular2 is on port 8001 and spring rest is on 8080

Answer 1

The part that was confusing is that I am using spring-boot-rest and I am not serving angular2 as static from tomcat container, I have angular2 under webpack so I was constantly trying to subscribe and send to relative URL.

The right way to do is:

import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {ActivityService} from '../common/services';
import {MaterializeDirective} from 'angular2-materialize';
import {LarsActionButtonComponent} from '../common/components';

var SockJS = require('sockjs-client');
var Stomp = require('stompjs');

@Component({
selector: 'activity',
providers: [ActivityService],
directives: [MaterializeDirective, LarsActionButtonComponent],
templateUrl: 'app/activity/activity.html'
})

export class Activity {
stompClient: any;

activityId: any;
text: any;
messages: Array<String> = new Array<String>();

constructor() {
}

send() {
    this.stompClient.send('/app/hello/' + this.activityId, {},      JSON.stringify({ 'name': this.text }));
}

connect() {
    var that = this;
    var socket = new SockJS('tst-rest.mypageexample/hello?activityId=' + this.activityId);
    this.stompClient = Stomp.over(socket);
    this.stompClient.connect({}, function (frame) {
        console.log('Connected: ' + frame);
        that.stompClient.subscribe('/topic/greetings/' + that.activityId, function (greeting) {
            that.messages.push(JSON.parse(greeting.body).content);
        });
    }, function (err) {
        console.log('err', err);
    });
}

}

and in spring controller:

@Controller
public class SocketController {


@MessageMapping("/hello")
@SendTo("/topic/greetings")
public Greeting greeting(HelloMessage message) throws Exception {
    return new Greeting("Hello, " + message.getName() + "!");
}

}

Configuration class:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
public class WebSocketConfig extends AbstractWebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void configureMessageBroker(MessageBrokerRegistry config) {
        config.enableSimpleBroker("/topic");
        config.setApplicationDestinationPrefixes("/app");
    }

    @Override
    public void registerStompEndpoints(StompEndpointRegistry registry) {
        registry.addEndpoint("/hello").setAllowedOrigins("*").withSockJS();
    }

}

Answer 2

i had myself some issues to work with an angular2 client using stomp over SockJs versus a Java spring-boot back-end. Here what i did to make it working:

On the angular side:

this.stompClient.subscribe cannot be find, so bind "this" to "that".

constructor() {
    var that = this;
    var socket = new SockJS('http://localhost:8080/portfolio');
    this.stompClient = Stomp.over(socket);
    this.stompClient.connect("guest", "guest", function(frame) {
        console.log('Connected: ' + frame);
        that.stompClient.subscribe('http://localhost:8080/topic/greeting', function(greeting) {
            console.log("from from", greeting);
        });
    }, function (err) {
        console.log('err', err);
    });
}

On the Java server side:

Your Controller need an annotation that said where the vallue is returned like this:

@MessageMapping("/greeting")
@SendTo("/topic/greetings")
public String handle(String greeting) {
    return "[" + "greeting" + ": " + greeting;
}

According to your message broker.

Hope that's help a bit.