#Welcome to the GDG Go Hacknight Websocket Server

For the Jan 2016 GDG Monthly we talked about websockets. I shared this presentation: Google Slide

There is a default webpage that can be found @ localhost:8080/. This app will connect to a websocket found at

localhost:8080/ws/{connectionName}

The websocket api has a few features:

Shared objects allow you to share state between connected clients. This is done in the form of a JSON document. Send a message of the form:

{
	"source":"client",
	"command": "patch"|"merge"|"subscribe"|"delete",
	"path": "unique-path-string",
	"message": JSON Document
}

Note that the object must be created via the patch or merge commands before it can be subscribed to.

Publish allows you to fire (and forget) a message that will be distributed to all subscribers. The message will not be retained after it is copied to the subscribers. It's kinda like an irc chat channel.

{
	"source":"client",
	"command": "notify",
	"path": "unique-path-string",
	"message": JSON Document
}

Notify allows you to publish a message direcly to another connected user.

{
	"source":"client",
	"command": "notify",
	"path": "other-users-id",
	"message": JSON Document
}

Hope this document helps.