Spring: send message to websocket clients

Question

I\'m building a webchat with Spring Boot, RabbitMQ and WebSocket as POC, but I\'m stucked a the last point: WebSockets
I want my ws clients to connect to a specific endpoint

Answer 1

Ok, I think I got it, for everyone who needs it, here is the answer:

first, you need to add WS dependencies to the pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-websocket</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-messaging</artifactId>
</dependency>

create a WS endpoint

@Configuration
@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
public class WebSocketConfig extends AbstractWebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurer {

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

    @Override
    public void configureMessageBroker(MessageBrokerRegistry config) {
        config.enableSimpleBroker("/");

        // use the /app prefix for others
        config.setApplicationDestinationPrefixes("/app");
    }

}

Note: I'm using STOMP, so the clients should connect like this

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        var messageList = $("#messages");
        // defined a connection to a new socket endpoint
        var socket = new SockJS('/stomp');
        var stompClient = Stomp.over(socket);
        stompClient.connect({ }, function(frame) {
            // subscribe to the /topic/message endpoint
            stompClient.subscribe("/room.2", function(data) {
                var message = data.body;
                messageList.append("<li>" + message + "</li>");
            });

        });
    });
</script>

Then, you can simply wire the ws messenger on your components with

@Autowired
private SimpMessagingTemplate webSocket;

and send the message with

webSocket.convertAndSend(channel, new String(message.getBody()));