@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client
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Infomaker JS module: im-infocaster-web-client
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Prerequisites
You need to authorize yourself as infomaker with npm using a private key located in 1Password. The key can be found in the file 'JumpStart .env' in the Internal vault.
Installation
npm install @infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client --save
Basic Structure
The library supplies two web clients, using WebSocket
and EventSource
technologies. These
clients can create normal InfoCaster sessions, and subscribe to InfoCaster Broadcasts.
When a message is received from InfoCaster to the session, or broadcast, the client will emit
an event of either publish
or broadcastPublish
, for normal session and broadcast respectively.
In order to send messages to a session, the source doing the sending needs the session's webhookURL, or a broadcastId, and make simple http-requests to an InfoCaster endpoint detailed in the InfoCaster documentation.
Available Events
| Name | Description |
| --------------------- | ----------- |
| sessionInit
| Triggers when the client has successfully created a connection with the InfoCaster endpoint |
| publish
| Triggers when a source publishes a message to the session's webhookUrl
|
| broadcastPublish
| Triggers when a source publishes a message to the subscribed broadcast's publish-endpoint |
| error
| Something went wrong |
| close
| Connection to InfoCaster was closed for some reason |
Usage
Subscribe/Unsubscribe to events
The client has three relevant functions for event handling: on
, off
, and clearEventHandlers
.
To subscribe to an event it's as easy as infoCasterClient.on('publish', data => console.log(data))
. In order to
unsubscribe from an event, you need to have a named reference for your callback-function.
const callback = (data) => {
console.log(data)
}
infoCasterClient.on('publish', callback)
infoCasterClient.off('publish', callback)
Select source
InfoCaster Web Client supports WebSocket
and EventSource
-sources and contain clients for both.
Communication for these clients are one-way, even on WebSocket. To send messages to the clients, use the webhookURL generated after the session has been initialized.
import {EventSourceClient, WebSocketClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
Or, if you prefer to use a different name:
import {EventSourceClient as InfoCasterClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
Override InfoCaster endpoint
By default, the clients are configured to talk to the production environment of InfoCaster, but if you want to change the base url to something else.
import {WebSocketClient, EventSourceClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
const infoCasterClient = new WebSocketClient('https://my-personal.lcc.infomaker.io')
const anotherClient = new EventSourceClient('https://my-personal.lcc.infomaker.io')
Sessions
Create an InfoCaster session and listen to updates
import {WebSocketClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
const infoCasterClient = new WebSocketClient('https://infocaster.lcc.infomaker.io', 'my-publisher', 'JWT-read-token', 'JWT-write-token')
infoCasterClient.on('sessionInit', (data) => {
// Session is now active
})
// Receive all "publish"-type messages
infoCasterClient.on('publish', (data) => {
console.log(data)
})
Publish a message to an InfoCaster session
An active session is required to publish a message.
import {WebSocketClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
const infoCasterClient = new WebSocketClient('https://infocaster.lcc.infomaker.io', 'my-publisher', 'JWT-read-token', 'JWT-write-token')
infoCasterClient.on('sessionInit', async (data) => {
// Session is now active
await infoCasterClient.publish({foo: 'bar'})
})
// Receive all "publish"-type messages
infoCasterClient.on('publish', (data) => {
console.log(data) // {"payload": {"foo": "bar"}}
})
Fetch the current session's webhookURL
You might need to supply your backend with a way to send updates to your session; in that case, start a session and fetch that session's webhookUrl and use it on your backend.
import {WebSocketClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
const infoCasterClient = new WebSocketClient('https://infocaster.lcc.infomaker.io', 'my-publisher', 'JWT-read-token', 'JWT-write-token')
infoCasterClient.on('sessionInit', () => {
console.log(infoCasterClient.webhookUrl)
})
Using channel for sessions
Sometimes it might be useful to differentiate messages on a single sessions by channel, sending status updates for different
tasks on the same session connection for example. When using channels, the data supplied to the publish
-event will contain
a channel
-property, which you can use to filter, group, or handle however you wish.
import {WebSocketClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
const infoCasterClient = new WebSocketClient('https://infocaster.lcc.infomaker.io', 'my-publisher', 'JWT-read-token', 'JWT-write-token')
infoCasterClient.on('sessionInit', async () => {
// Session is now active
await infoCasterClient.publish({foo: 'bar'}, 'my-channel')
})
// Receive all "publish"-type messages
infoCasterClient.on('publish', (data) => {
console.log(data) // {"channel": "my-channel", "payload": {"foo": "bar"}}
})
Broadcasts
Subscribe to an InfoCaster Broadcast
An active session is required to subscribe to a broadcast. When a subscription is requested,
your current session will be upgraded and start listening to that broadcast. Messages from that broadcast
will trigger the broadcastPublish
-event on the client.
import {WebSocketClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
const infoCasterClient = new WebSocketClient('https://infocaster.lcc.infomaker.io', 'my-publisher', 'JWT-read-token', 'JWT-write-token')
infoCasterClient.on('sessionInit', async () => {
const broadcastId = 'my-broadcast-id'
await infoCasterClient.subscribe(broadcastId)
})
Publish a message to an InfoCaster broadcast
An active session is required to publish a message.
import {WebSocketClient} from '@infomaker/im-infocaster-web-client'
const infoCasterClient = new WebSocketClient('https://infocaster.lcc.infomaker.io', 'my-publisher', 'JWT-read-token', 'JWT-write-token')
infoCasterClient.on('sessionInit', async (data) => {
const broadcastId = 'my-broadcast-id'
await infoCasterClient.subscribe(broadcastId)
await infoCasterClient.broadcastPublish({foo: 'bar'}, 'my-broadcast-id')
})
// Receive all "broadcastPublish"-type messages
infoCasterClient.on('broadcastPublish', (data) => {
console.log(data) // {"payload": {"foo": "bar"}}
})
Change publisher-id
The clients are by default sending and receiving messages to and from the publisher-id open
. To send/receive using
a different id, supply this id to the subscribe
, and broadcastPublish
-functions:
infoCasterClient.subscribe('my-broadcast-id', 'my-publisher-id')
infoCasterClient.broadcastPublish({foo: 'bar'}, 'my-broadcast-id', 'my-publisher-id')