Streaming API gets error while event:delete was streamed

[obeliskgolem]

Hello there,

I was using mastodon ruby streaming api today and I found Streaming API was not stable. It yields the following error while receiving new events.

/Users/XXX/.rbenv/versions/2.3.6/lib/ruby/2.3.0/json/common.rb:156:in `parse': 784: unexpected token at '100105350338424078' (JSON::ParserError)

When I tracked the stream using curl, I found out that the stream not only pushed event:update, but also event:delete. Such kind of JSON response will cause ParseError in Streaming API.

event: delete
data: 100105350338424078

Is there any way to get rid of this? I am a newbie, both to mastodon and ruby. Please help! Thanks!

BTW my ruby code attached:

  streaming_client.stream("public/local") do |stream_toot|
    next if !stream_toot.kind_of?(Mastodon::Status)
    puts stream_toot.content

[obeliskgolem]

I've found a workaround which need modification of source code "streaming/response.rb":

      def on_body(data)
        @tokenizer.extract(data).each do |line|
          has_data = @match.match(line)
          next if has_data.nil?

          type = has_data[1]
          data = has_data[2]

          next if !(type == "update")        # added a check before parsing JSON

          @block.call(type, JSON.parse(data))
        end

[obeliskgolem]

I am closing this issue since I misunderstood the code. It is correct.