Server-sent events in fluent-http

2014, May 23 One min read

Today, I’ve added the initial support of Server-sent events in fluent-http.

The underlying http server we use (Simple) doesn’t support websockets yet. But streaming good-old server-sent events works very well.

To produce a stream of messages, we rely on the Java 8 Stream API.

new WebServer(routes -> routes
        .get("/events", () -> Stream.iterate(0, (a) -> a + 1)))
        .start(9090);

This code streams the values 0,1,2,3,4,5… for ever.