API.md

API

Overview

There're just 3 roles in this library - socket, client and message.

client is for physical connection while socket is for "namespace" (which is like a logical channel), which means one socket paired with one namespace, and one client paired with one physical connection.

Since a physical connection can have multiple namespaces (which is called multiplex), a client object may have multiple socket objects, each of which is bound to a distinct namespace.

Use client to setup the connection to the server, manange the connection status, also session id for the connection.

Use socket to send messages under namespace and receives messages in the namespace, also handle special types of message.

The message is just about the content you want to send, with text, binary or structured combinations.

Socket

Constructors

Sockets are all managed by client, no public constructors.

You can get it's pointer by client.socket(namespace).

Event Emitter

void emit(std::string const& name, message::list const& msglist, std::function<void (message::ptr const&)> const& ack)

Universal event emition interface, by applying implicit conversion magic, it is backward compatible with all previous emit interfaces.

Event Bindings

void on(std::string const& event_name,event_listener const& func)

void on(std::string const& event_name,event_listener_aux const& func)

Bind a callback to specified event name. Same as socket.on() function in JS, event_listener is for full content event object, event_listener_aux is for convenience.

void off(std::string const& event_name)

Unbind the event callback with specified name.

void off_all()

Clear all event bindings (not including the error listener).

void on_error(error_listener const& l)

Bind the error handler for socket.io error messages.

void off_error()

Unbind the error handler.

//event object:
class event
{
public:
    const std::string& get_nsp() const;

    const std::string& get_name() const;

    const message::ptr& get_message() const;

    bool need_ack() const;

    void put_ack_message(message::ptr const& ack_message);

    message::ptr const& get_ack_message() const;
   ...
};
//event listener declare:
typedef std::function<void(const std::string& name,message::ptr const& message,bool need_ack, message::ptr& ack_message)> event_listener_aux;

typedef std::function<void(event& event)> event_listener;

typedef std::function<void(message::ptr const& message)> error_listener;

Connect and close socket

connect will happen for existing sockets automatically when client have opened up the physical connection.

socket opened with connected client will connect to its namespace immediately.

void close()

Positively disconnect from namespace.

Get name of namespace

std::string const& get_namespace() const

Get current namespace name which the client is inside.

Client

Constructors

client() default constructor.

Connection Listeners

void set_open_listener(con_listener const& l)

Call when websocket is open, especially means good connectivity.

void set_fail_listener(con_listener const& l)

Call when failed in connecting.

void set_close_listener(close_listener const& l)

Call when closed or drop. See client::close_reason

//connection listener declare:
enum close_reason
{
    close_reason_normal,
    close_reason_drop
};
typedef std::function<void(void)> con_listener;

typedef std::function<void(close_reason const& reason)> close_listener;

Socket listeners

void set_socket_open_listener(socket_listener const& l)

Set listener for socket connect event, called when any sockets being ready to send message.

void set_socket_close_listener(socket_listener const& l)

Set listener for socket close event, called when any sockets being closed, afterward, corresponding socket object will be cleared from client.

    //socket_listener declare:
    typedef std::function<void(std::string const& nsp)> socket_listener;

Connect and Close

void connect(const std::string& uri)

Connect to socket.io server, e.g., client.connect("ws://localhost:3000");

void close()

Close the client, return immediately.

void sync_close()

Close the client, return until it is really closed.

bool opened() const

Check if client's connection is opened.

Transparent reconnecting

void set_reconnect_attempts(int attempts)

Set max reconnect attempts, set to 0 to disable transparent reconnecting.

void set_reconnect_delay(unsigned millis)

Set minimum delay for reconnecting, this is the delay for 1st reconnecting attempt, then the delay duration grows by attempts made.

void set_reconnect_delay_max(unsigned millis)

Set maximum delay for reconnecting.

void set_reconnecting_listener(con_listener const& l)

Set listener for reconnecting is in process.

void set_reconnect_listener(reconnect_listener const& l)

Set listener for reconnecting event, called once a delayed connecting is scheduled.

Namespace

socket::ptr socket(std::string const& nsp)

Get a pointer to a socket which is paired with the specified namespace.

Session ID

std::string const& get_sessionid() const

Get socket.io session id.

Message

message Base class of all message object.

int_message message contains a 64-bit integer.

double_message message contains a double.

string_message message contains a string.

array_message message contains a vector<message::ptr>.

object_message message contains a map<string,message::ptr>.

message::ptr pointer to message object, it will be one of its derived classes, judge by message.get_flag().

All designated constructor of message objects is hidden, you need to create message and get the message::ptr by [derived]_message:create().