Connection does not close after the timeout expired

[denvudd]

Hello everyone! First of all, thank you for this library, saves me a ton of time. So I tried to use the heartbeat feature. On version 4.11.1 I experienced that the "ping" message doesn't send therefore it just timeouts because there is no response from the server (because the server doesn't receive a "ping" message), so I downgraded to version 4.8.1 (https://github.com/robtaussig/react-use-websocket/issues/255) and it worked. But now after heartbeat timeouts and there are no responses from the server nothing happens. I expect a closing connection after heartbeat timeouts, am I missing something or do I understand the logic wrong?

This is my options with heartbeat:

shouldReconnect: (closeEvent) => {
  return (
    shouldConnect &&
    reconnectAttemptsRef.current < RECONNECT_INTERVALS.length
  );
},
reconnectAttempts: RECONNECT_INTERVALS.length,
reconnectInterval: (attemptNumber) => {
  reconnectAttemptsRef.current = attemptNumber + 1;
  setCurrentReconnectAttempt(attemptNumber + 1);

  return (
    RECONNECT_INTERVALS[attemptNumber] ||
    RECONNECT_INTERVALS[RECONNECT_INTERVALS.length - 1]
  );
},
 onClose: () => {
  console.log(
    `WebSocket closed. Attempt ${reconnectAttemptsRef.current} of ${RECONNECT_INTERVALS.length}`
  );

  if (restOptions?.onClose) {
    restOptions.onClose();
  }
},
 heartbeat: {
  message: JSON.stringify({ action: "ping", request_id: "0" }),
  returnMessage: JSON.stringify({
    errors: [],
    data: { message: "Pong!" },
    action: "ping",
    response_status: 200,
    request_id: "0",
  }),
  timeout: restOptions?.heartbeatTimeout || HEARTBEAT_TIMEOUT,
  interval: restOptions?.heartbeatInterval || HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL,
},

The "ping" message sends and even if there is no response from the server - it sends the next "ping" message and then just stops and does nothing.

[denvudd]

Also, I noticed that after the connection was restored (and "ping" messages were without responses) the WebSocket reconnected automatically, so I suppose it still closes the connection after heartbeat timeouts but maybe doesn't change the connection status. This is just an assumption anyway because I don't have a lot of experience with sockets

[deeseeker]

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[robtaussig]

Sorry for not responding — have been very busy lately. @deeseeker , I would be very appreciative of any help/contributions made for this feature!

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