wottreng/go_websocket_server

websocket pub/sub style microservice server written in golang

websocket pub/sub microservice

websocket pub/sub style microservice server written in golang

Usage

• run server: go run server.go
• connect to the server with arguments ?topic=<some_topic>
• send messages to the server for that topic
• receive messages from the server for that topic

Features

• supports multiple topics
• supports multiple clients per topic
• optional api key define in /utils/system_utils/system_utils.go
• multithreaded
• cmd line arguments for development(bind to localhost) and production(bind to public address)
• logging output to file

testing

basic example html served from /test route to test websocket connection

layout

• server.go: main file
  • starts websocket server
  • contains the handler function
• file_utils.go: file utilities
  • contains functions to read and write files
• time_utils.go: time utilities
  • contains functions to get the current time and date
• http_utils.go: http utilities
  • contains functions to handle http requests
  • contains functions to handle websocket requests
• system_utils.go: system utilities
  • handles cmd line arguments

websocket server library

• gorilla websocket
  • Gorilla WebSocket is a Go implementation of the WebSocket protocol.

Cheers, Mark