The socketio package is a simple abstraction layer for different web browser- supported transport mechanisms. It is fully compatible with the Socket.IO client (version 0.6) JavaScript-library by LearnBoost Labs. By writing custom codecs the socketio could be perhaps used with other clients, too.

It provides an easy way for developers to rapidly prototype with the most popular browser transport mechanism today:

• HTML5 WebSockets
• Adobe® Flash® Sockets
• JSONP Long Polling
• XHR Long Polling
• XHR Multipart Streaming
• ActiveX HTMLFile

Go-socket.io is currently compatible with Socket.IO 0.6 clients only.

The Paper Experiment

The socketio package works hand-in-hand with the standard http package (by plugging itself into http.ServeMux) and hence it doesn't need a full network port for itself. It has an callback-style event handling API. The callbacks are:

• SocketIO.OnConnect
• SocketIO.OnDisconnect
• SocketIO.OnMessage

Other utility-methods include:

• SocketIO.ServeMux
• SocketIO.Broadcast
• SocketIO.BroadcastExcept
• SocketIO.GetConn

Each new connection will be automatically assigned an session id and using those the clients can reconnect without losing messages: the server persists clients' pending messages (until some configurable point) if they can't be immediately delivered. All writes are by design asynchronous and can be made through Conn.Send. The server also abstracts handshaking and various keep-alive mechanisms.

Finally, the actual format on the wire is described by a separate Codec. The default bundled codecs, SIOCodec and SIOStreamingCodec are fully compatible with the LearnBoost's Socket.IO client (master and development branches).

package main

import (
	"http"
	"log"
	"socketio"
)

func main() {
	sio := socketio.NewSocketIO(nil)

	sio.OnConnect(func(c *socketio.Conn) {
		sio.Broadcast(struct{ announcement string }{"connected: " + c.String()})
	})

	sio.OnDisconnect(func(c *socketio.Conn) {
		sio.BroadcastExcept(c,
			struct{ announcement string }{"disconnected: " + c.String()})
	})

	sio.OnMessage(func(c *socketio.Conn, msg socketio.Message) {
		sio.BroadcastExcept(c,
			struct{ message []string }{[]string{c.String(), msg.Data()}})
	})

	mux := sio.ServeMux()
	mux.Handle("/", http.FileServer("www/", "/"))

	if err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", mux); err != nil {
		log.Fatal("ListenAndServe:", err)
	}
}

You can get the code and run the bundled example by following these steps:

$ git clone git://github.com/madari/go-socket.io.git
$ cd go-socket.io
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ make install
$ cd example
$ make
$ ./example

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