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Wade Mealing
September 17, 2013
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Cowboy - RabbitMQ and websockets
A quick overview on how to plug together some buzzword enabled tech for your enjoyment.
Wade Mealing
September 17, 2013
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Transcript
Erlang + Message Queue + HTML 5 Tech
= Over-engineered Chat Server
What Cowboy ? https://github.com/extend/cowboy Small, fast modular web server written
in erlang.
What Gen Bunny https://github.com/mochi/gen_bunny RabbitMQ client library for simple pubsub
in erlang.
What Websocket ? https://www.websocket.org/ Bi-directional web communication mechanism.
Over Architecturing You want it. I deliver !
Server Moving parts Cowboy Gen Bunny Browser
Client Moving parts Cowboy Gen Bunny Browser
Websockets Technical Detour
Client Moving parts Browser Browser Server HTTP Port 80 Port
80
Client Moving parts Browser Browser Server WS Upgrade Upgrade Port
80 Port 80
WHY ? WORKS WITH EXISTING PROXIES
Client JS Data is live chat stream
JS Connection wsUrl = "ws://server:8081/websocket"; websocket = new WebSocket(wsUrl);
Websocket Setup websocket = new WebSocket(wsURL); websocket.onopen = ... websocket.onmessage
= function(evt){ onMessage(e) }; websocket.onerror = ...
onMessage Handler function onMessage(e) { Msg = '<p>' + txt
+ '</p>' $('#output').prepend(Msg); };
Smooth Yeah
Server Side Server WS
Cowboy What comes to mind ?
Kid Rock
Fresh Leather
Pretty Lil' web server
Cowboy Routes, REST, middleware, web sockets and more.
Cowboy follows OTP principals.
Cowboy WS Required Callbacks init websocket_init websocket_handle websocket_info websocket_terminate
Cowboy WS init Upgrades from http → web socket
Cowboy WS init({tcp, http}, _Req, _Opts) → {upgrade,protocol,cowboy_websocket}.
Cowboy WS websocket_init Run on each connection.
Cowboy WS websocket_init(_Name, Req, _Opts) → Pid = consumer:start_link(), {ok,
Req, #state{pid=Pid}}.
Cowboy WS websocket_handle Recv data from client, optionally return data.
Cowboy WS websocket_handle(Data, Req, State) → {text, Msg} = Data,
{reply, {text, << "recv: ", Msg/binary >>}, Req, State};
Cowboy WS websocket_info Live Push data to client
Cowboy WS websocket_info(Data, Req, State) → {reply, {text, Data}, Req,State};
Sending to RabbitMQ RabbitMQ websocket_handle
Recv from RabbitMQ RabbitMQ websocket_info gen_bunny CONSUMER
Message Queues gen bunny
gen_bunny follows OTP principals.
callbacks Required: • handle_message • init • handle_call • handle_cast
• handle_info • terminate
callbacks handle_message Handle messages from the message subscribed message queue.
callbacks handle_message(Msg, State) → NewState = act_on_msg(Msg,State) {noreply, NewState};
MQ perspective Exchange Exchange “Fanout” M S G M S
G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S G M S G
Live demo Wireless Network: Name: rabbit Password: carrot VISIT: http://10.1.1.1:8081/
Benchmarking Method: Connect to Websocket Wait for signal. Send 100
messages. Receive all messages
Benchmarking Results: (Didn't get this done in time, sorry) 0.5
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Source Code github.com/wmealing/ bunny-cowboy-websocket