// Copyright (c) 2016 The Rouille developers // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 // or the MIT // license , // at your option. All files in the project carrying such // notice may not be copied, modified, or distributed except // according to those terms. #[macro_use] extern crate rouille; use std::thread; use rouille::websocket; use rouille::Response; fn main() { // This example demonstrates how to use websockets with rouille. // Small message so that people don't need to read the source code. // Note that like all examples we only listen on `localhost`, so you can't access this server // from another machine than your own. println!("Now listening on localhost:8000"); rouille::start_server("localhost:8000", move |request| { router!(request, (GET) (/) => { // The / route outputs an HTML client so that the user can try the websockets. // Note that in a real website you should probably use some templating system, or // at least load the HTML from a file. Response::html("

This example sends back everything you send to the server.

Received:

") }, (GET) (/ws) => { // This is the websockets route. // In order to start using websockets we call `websocket::start`. // The function returns an error if the client didn't request websockets, in which // case we return an error 400 to the client thanks to the `try_or_400!` macro. // // The function returns a response to send back as part of the `start_server` // function, and a `websocket` variable of type `Receiver`. // Once the response has been sent back to the client, the `Receiver` will be // filled by rouille with a `Websocket` object representing the websocket. let (response, websocket) = try_or_400!(websocket::start(&request, Some("echo"))); // Because of the nature of I/O in Rust, we need to spawn a separate thread for // each websocket. thread::spawn(move || { // This line will block until the `response` above has been returned. let ws = websocket.recv().unwrap(); // We use a separate function for better readability. websocket_handling_thread(ws); }); response }, // Default 404 route as with all examples. _ => rouille::Response::empty_404() ) }); } // Function run in a separate thread. fn websocket_handling_thread(mut websocket: websocket::Websocket) { // We wait for a new message to come from the websocket. while let Some(message) = websocket.next() { match message { websocket::Message::Text(txt) => { // If the message is text, send it back with `send_text`. println!("received {:?} from a websocket", txt); websocket.send_text(&txt).unwrap(); } websocket::Message::Binary(_) => { println!("received binary from a websocket"); } } } }