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Getting started with WebSockets-Next

This guide explains how your Quarkus application can utilize web sockets to create interactive web applications. In this guide, we will develop a very simple chat application using web sockets to receive and send messages to the other connected users.

The websockets-next extension is experimental. The proposal API may change in future releases.

先决条件

完成这个指南,你需要:

  • 大概15分钟

  • 编辑器

  • JDK 17+ installed with JAVA_HOME configured appropriately

  • Apache Maven 3.9.6

  • 如果你愿意的话,还可以选择使用Quarkus CLI

  • 如果你想构建原生可执行程序,可以选择安装Mandrel或者GraalVM,并正确配置(或者使用Docker在容器中进行构建)

Quarkus WebSockets vs. Quarkus WebSockets Next

This guide uses the quarkus-websockets-next extension. This extension is a new implementation of the WebSocket API that is more efficient and easier to use than the original quarkus-websockets extension. The original quarkus-websockets extension is still available and will continue to be supported.

Unlike quarkus-websockets, quarkus-web-socket-next does NOT implement Jakarta WebSocket. Instead, it provides a simplified and more modern API that is easier to use. It is also designed to work efficiently with Quarkus' reactive programming model and the Quarkus' networking layer.

What you’ll learn

  • How to use the quarkus-websockets-next extension

  • How to declare a web socket endpoint

  • How to send and receive messages using web sockets

  • How to broadcast messages to all connected users

  • How to be notified of new connections and disconnections

  • How to use path parameters in web socket URLs

应用结构

In this guide, we create a straightforward chat application using web sockets to receive and send messages to the other connected users.

Architecture

解决方案

我们建议您按照下面几节的说明,一步一步地创建应用程序。不过,您可以直接跳到已完成的例子。

克隆 Git 仓库可使用命令: git clone https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts.git ,或者下载 压缩包

The solution is located in the websockets-next-quickstart directory.

创建Maven项目

首先,我们需要一个新的项目。使用以下命令创建一个新项目:

CLI
quarkus create app org.acme:websockets-quickstart \
    --extension='websockets' \
    --no-code
cd websockets-quickstart

创建Grade项目,请添加 --gradle 或者 --gradle-kotlin-dsl 参数。

For more information about how to install and use the Quarkus CLI, see the Quarkus CLI guide.

Maven
mvn io.quarkus.platform:quarkus-maven-plugin:3.9.5:create \
    -DprojectGroupId=org.acme \
    -DprojectArtifactId=websockets-quickstart \
    -Dextensions='websockets' \
    -DnoCode
cd websockets-quickstart

创建Grade项目,请添加 -DbuildTool=gradle 或者 -DbuildTool=gradle-kotlin-dsl 参数。

For Windows users:

  • If using cmd, (don’t use backward slash \ and put everything on the same line)

  • If using Powershell, wrap -D parameters in double quotes e.g. "-DprojectArtifactId=websockets-quickstart"

This command generates the project (without any classes) and imports the websockets-next extension.

If you already have your Quarkus project configured, you can add the websockets-next extension to your project by running the following command in your project base directory:

CLI
quarkus extension add websockets-next
Maven
./mvnw quarkus:add-extension -Dextensions='websockets-next'
Gradle
./gradlew addExtension --extensions='websockets-next'

这会在你的构建文件中添加以下内容:

pom.xml
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-websockets-next</artifactId>
</dependency>
build.gradle
implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-websockets-next")

Declaring a WebSocket endpoint

Our application contains a single class that handles the web sockets. Create the org.acme.websockets.ChatWebSocket class in the src/main/java directory. Copy the following content into the created file:

package org.acme.websockets;

import io.quarkus.websockets.next.OnClose;
import io.quarkus.websockets.next.OnOpen;
import io.quarkus.websockets.next.OnTextMessage;
import io.quarkus.websockets.next.WebSocket;
import io.quarkus.websockets.next.WebSocketConnection;
import jakarta.inject.Inject;

@WebSocket(path = "/chat/{username}")  (1)
public class ChatWebSocket {

    // Declare the type of messages that can be sent and received
    public enum MessageType {USER_JOINED, USER_LEFT, CHAT_MESSAGE}
    public record ChatMessage(MessageType type, String from, String message) {
    }

    @Inject
    WebSocketConnection connection;  (2)

    @OnOpen(broadcast = true)       (3)
    public ChatMessage onOpen() {
        return new ChatMessage(MessageType.USER_JOINED, connection.pathParam("username"), null);
    }

    @OnClose                    (4)
    public void onClose() {
        ChatMessage departure = new ChatMessage(MessageType.USER_LEFT, connection.pathParam("username"), null);
        connection.broadcast().sendTextAndAwait(departure);
    }

    @OnTextMessage(broadcast = true)  (5)
    public ChatMessage onMessage(ChatMessage message) {
        return message;
    }

}
1 Declares the web socket endpoint and configure the path. Note that the path can contain a path parameter: username.
2 A session scoped bean that represents the connection to the client. It allows sending messages programmatically and retrieve the path parameters.
3 This method is called when a new client connects. The broadcast = true attribute indicates that the returned message should be sent to all connected clients.
4 This method is called when a client disconnects. The method uses the WebSocketConnection to broadcast a message to all remaining connected clients.
5 This method is called when a client sends a message. The broadcast = true attribute indicates that the returned message should be sent to all connected clients. Here, we just returns the received (text) message.

As you can see, Quarkus handles the web socket lifecycle and message handling using annotations. It also serializes and deserializes messages using JSON automatically.

A slick web frontend

All chat applications need a nice UI, well, this one may not be that nice, but does the work. Quarkus automatically serves static resources contained in the META-INF/resources directory. Create the src/main/resources/META-INF/resources directory and copy this index.html file in it.

运行应用程序

Now, let’s see our application in action. Run it with:

CLI
quarkus dev
Maven
./mvnw quarkus:dev
Gradle
./gradlew --console=plain quarkusDev

Then open your 2 browser windows to http://localhost:8080/:

  1. Enter a name in the top text area (use 2 different names).

  2. Click on connect

  3. Send and receive messages

Application

像往常一样,该应用程序可以用以下方式打包:

CLI
quarkus build
Maven
./mvnw install
Gradle
./gradlew build

并使用 java -jar target/quarkus-app/quarkus-run.jar 命令运行该应用程序。

您也可以用以下方法构建原生(native)可执行文件:

CLI
quarkus build --native
Maven
./mvnw install -Dnative
Gradle
./gradlew build -Dquarkus.package.type=native

解决方案

This short getting started guide has shown you how to create a simple chat application using the quarkus-websockets-next extension. Learn more about this extension on the dedicated reference guide.

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