[java] javax.websocket client simple example

Can someone please provide me very simple example of websocket client using javax.websocket?

I want to connect to websocket (ws://socket.example.com:1234), send message (add channel) and listen to messages. All messages (sent & listened) are in JSON format.

And btw is this library the best for simple websocket communication?

TooTallNate has a simple client side https://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket

Just add the java_websocket.jar in the dist folder into your project.

 import org.java_websocket.client.WebSocketClient;
 import org.java_websocket.drafts.Draft_10;
 import org.java_websocket.handshake.ServerHandshake;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;

  WebSocketClient mWs = new WebSocketClient( new URI( "ws://socket.example.com:1234" ), new Draft_10() )
{
                    @Override
                    public void onMessage( String message ) {
                     JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(message);
                     String channel = obj.getString("channel");
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onOpen( ServerHandshake handshake ) {
                        System.out.println( "opened connection" );
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onClose( int code, String reason, boolean remote ) {
                        System.out.println( "closed connection" );
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onError( Exception ex ) {
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                    }

                };
 //open websocket
 mWs.connect();
 JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
 obj.put("event", "addChannel");
 obj.put("channel", "ok_btccny_ticker");
 String message = obj.toString();
 //send message
 mWs.send(message);

// and to close websocket

 mWs.close();

Use this library org.java_websocket

First thing you should import that library in build.gradle

repositories {
 mavenCentral()
 }

then add the implementation in dependency{}

implementation "org.java-websocket:Java-WebSocket:1.3.0"

Then you can use this code

In your activity declare object for Websocketclient like

private WebSocketClient mWebSocketClient;

then add this method for callback

 private void ConnectToWebSocket() {
URI uri;
try {
    uri = new URI("ws://your web socket url");
} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    return;
}

mWebSocketClient = new WebSocketClient(uri) {
    @Override
    public void onOpen(ServerHandshake serverHandshake) {
        Log.i("Websocket", "Opened");
        mWebSocketClient.send("Hello from " + Build.MANUFACTURER + " " + Build.MODEL);
    }

    @Override
    public void onMessage(String s) {
        final String message = s;
        runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                TextView textView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.edittext_chatbox);
                textView.setText(textView.getText() + "\n" + message);
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void onClose(int i, String s, boolean b) {
        Log.i("Websocket", "Closed " + s);
    }

    @Override
    public void onError(Exception e) {
        Log.i("Websocket", "Error " + e.getMessage());
    }
};
mWebSocketClient.connect();

}

Have a look at this Java EE 7 examples from Arun Gupta.

I forked it on github.

Main

/**
 * @author Arun Gupta
 */
public class Client {

    final static CountDownLatch messageLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            WebSocketContainer container = ContainerProvider.getWebSocketContainer();
            String uri = "ws://echo.websocket.org:80/";
            System.out.println("Connecting to " + uri);
            container.connectToServer(MyClientEndpoint.class, URI.create(uri));
            messageLatch.await(100, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        } catch (DeploymentException | InterruptedException | IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(Client.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }
}

ClientEndpoint

/**
 * @author Arun Gupta
 */
@ClientEndpoint
public class MyClientEndpoint {
    @OnOpen
    public void onOpen(Session session) {
        System.out.println("Connected to endpoint: " + session.getBasicRemote());
        try {
            String name = "Duke";
            System.out.println("Sending message to endpoint: " + name);
            session.getBasicRemote().sendText(name);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(MyClientEndpoint.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    @OnMessage
    public void processMessage(String message) {
        System.out.println("Received message in client: " + message);
        Client.messageLatch.countDown();
    }

    @OnError
    public void processError(Throwable t) {
        t.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Here is one simple example.. you can download and test it http://www.pretechsol.com/2014/12/java-ee-websocket-simple-example.html

I have Spring 4.2 in my project and many SockJS Stomp implementations usually work well with Spring Boot implementations. This implementation from Baeldung worked(for me without changing from Spring 4.2 to 5). After Using the dependencies mentioned in his blog, it still gave me ClassNotFoundError. I added the below dependency to fix it.

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>4.2.3.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>