Send data / process request using $websocketBackend

[LeleDev]

Isn't the $websocketBackend supposed to act like httpbeckend mock, and send data / process messages? If not, how can I achieve this behaviour? So far I've found only nodeJS mock servers, not angular ones

Thank you in advance

[PatrickJS]

Thanks for submitting the question. I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. Are you asking about how to use $websocketBackend mock with $websocket or how does $websocketBackend work with only one method .create()? Or are you asking how to use $websocket without a server aka including the mock version?

[LeleDev]

I'll try to explain better what I mean with the following scenario: I'have this websocket:

var ws = $websocket('ws://samplesite.data');

It sends data some data to samplesite.data using the send method:

ws.send(object);

I've also the following $websocketBackend:

var wsb = $websocketBackend('ws://samplesite.data');

How to make it send data back data to ws at the same way? I can't do:

wsb.send(object);

because it doesn't have a send method...

I thought that websockets could communicate in both ways, so if a $websocket can send data to a $websocketBackend, also the contrary should be possible... or am I wrong?

Thank you again

[PatrickJS]

If you're using $websocketBackend on the server assuming you want to send data down to the client then yeah that doesn't work and I can explain why that is. If you want to mock the server responses on the client then that's a different story and I can also explain how to do that.

Either way thanks for asking these questions since this means I need to update the docs to be more clear

[LeleDev]

Yes, if it doesn't requires too much of your time I'd be really glad to you for these explainations...

Thank you very very much for you support

[LeleDev]

I've found a library like angular-websocket that including a real mockserver, if you need some inspiration:

https://github.com/wilk/ng-websocket

[PatrickJS]

sorry I didn't get to this. I think what you were looking for for my version was including angular-websocket.js then angular-websocket-mock.js afterwards to overwrite creating a real WebSocket. ng-websocket has a lot of features I planned on going forward with and they include mocks inside the source itself. The last time I was working on this repo there was a problem of sticking with the w3c spec of how a websocket interface should be (not that simple) and then there are what others believe the interface should be (which is simple). I was planning on allowing the user to choose which interface they prefer, but that might be a little bit confusing not to mention how I would update the docs

[davidlmiller21]

@gdi2290 I'm also curious how you would mock server responses to the client using $websocketBackend. If you could provide some instruction here or update the docs, I'd appreciate it.

[meterlongcat]

+1

I was looking for this feature today too but this thread confirmed it doesn't yet exist.