I am looking to create a websocket on Meteor Server (not client) to connect to an external site. I know the URL I am going to be hitting as well as what data to expect, but I am unclear as to how exactly to create the websocket itself. All the searching I do presents me with solutions for the client, but I have yet to run into anything that serves as a server solution.
Is there anything out there I missed that fills this purpose? Atmosherejs.com doesn't list anything, and searching around on google/github didn't reveal anything either. Is there something built into Meteor that already accomplishes this?
The following code is for opening a Socket in Meteor on Port 3003. It convert the data from the socket (sendet from client) to a JSON-Object. So this means, the following code is a socket, which receive JSON.
Fiber = Npm.require('fibers')
// server
Npm.require('net').createServer(function (socket) {
console.log("connected");
socket.on('data', function (data) {
socket.write("hello!");
var o = JSON.parse(data.toString());
console.log(o);
Fiber(function() {
console.log('Meteor code is executing');
//=> Meteor code
}).run();
//console.log(data.toString());
//socket.close();
});
})
.listen(3003);
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I've wondered how to identify the current protocol if it's using websocket or polling.
-- in the client. (appended for certainty)
I've found a valid information from the debug console.
Meteor.connection._stream.socket.protocol
and it seems to have one value among...
['websocket',
'xdr-streaming',
'xhr-streaming',
'iframe-eventsource',
'iframe-htmlfile',
'xdr-polling',
'xhr-polling',
'iframe-xhr-polling',
'jsonp-polling'];
is there more grace way to identify the current protocol?
and when would it be the fastest timing to detect the protocol?
By the way, I need it to use a different DDP server when the sticky sessions needed since AWS ELB doesn't support sticky sessions and websocket at the same time.
Meteor uses DDP protocol. To connect to a different Meteor server and call its methods, use DDP.connect as follows.
import { DDP } from 'meteor/ddp-client'
DDP.connect(url)
Unfortunately, there is no graceful to get the protocol. onConnection returns an object which has some info.
Meteor.onConnection(obj =>
{ console.log(obj.httpHeaders.x-forwarded-proto); });
This returns 'ws' for websocket. This way of getting the protocol is not graceful!
Meteor.status() gives a reactive data source.
(https://docs.meteor.com/api/connections.html#DDP-connect)
if (Meteor.isClient) {
Tracker.autorun(() => {
const stat = Meteor.status();
if (stat.status === 'connected') {
console.log(Meteor.connection._stream.socket.protocol);
}
});
}
something like that will give the current protocol in the client side.
In my Meteor application I want to receive text messages through Nexmo. How do I create the callback function? I'm thinking of something like
Meteor.methods
'receive_sms': (values) ->
console.log values
But http://hitchticker.meteor.com/receive_sms doesn't really work of course. I can see my method is working when I do Meteor.call('receive_sms', 'test') in my browser, but the network debugger is not really giving me a lot of useful information. The Meteor docs aren't very helpful either.
How do I access the method from elsewhere?
Iron Router and then server side routes. Something like:
Router.route('/download/:file', function () {
// NodeJS request object
var request = this.request;
// NodeJS response object
var response = this.response;
this.response.end('file download content\n');
}, {where: 'server'});
In order to receive sms from nexmo you should make the callback (incoming url) available over the internet. Nexmo won’t be able to call localhost to send the incoming sms messages.
Here are some resources to tunnel request over the internet to localhost.
https://ngrok.com/
http://localtunnel.me/
https://pagekite.net/
I am trying to use SockJS from my Meteor to connect to another service but I can't get a reference to SockJS within meteor client or server. Does anyone have a good example of using SockJS to connect to other service or streaming API's from Meteor?
I have tried to accomplish this two ways but 'socket' is always undefined:
var socket = sockjs.createServer({ sockjs_url: 'http://api.hitbtc.com:8081' });
socket.onmessage = function(msg) {
var data = JSON.parse(msg.data);
console.log("CONNECTED!!" + data)
};
var socket = new SockJS('http://api.hitbtc.com:8081');
socket.onmessage = function(msg) {
var data = JSON.parse(msg.data);
console.log("CONNECTED!!" + data)
};
Even though SockJS is used by the Meteor itself it's hidden deeply inside the ddp package and it's not really exposed to the users. So basically, you have two options here:
You can either put another copy of SockJS into your app, ...
... or you can teach your custom server to understand DDP protocol, then you will be able to use DDP.connect to establish a new connection.
The second solution does not make sense of course if you are using 3rd party service. The first solution feels ugly because of the data redundancy, but I am afraid it's the only way out if 2. is not acceptable.
In the server:
execute Npm.require('./') and observe the path informed in the error, from it you can point to the packages from the depths of Meteor, in the case of SockJS the path (in version 1.10.2 of Meteor) is:
Npm.require('./meteor/ddp-server/node_modules/sockjs');
In the specific case of Sockjs, its use is slightly different from that presented on the Github page, as follows:
const sockjs = Npm.require('./meteor/ddp-server/node_modules/sockjs');
const echo = sockjs.listen(WebApp.httpServer, {prefix: '/echo'});
echo.on('connection', function(conn) {
conn.on ('data', function(message) {
conn.write(message);
});
conn.on('close', function(){});
});
I didn't find the sockjs "client" package in these files, because the sockjs-client package is specific to the browser. So I downloaded from the CDN that the "echo" output provided, I use "--exclude-archs web.browser.legacy" in my test environment, but from what I read out there the sockjs-client package is available if you don't use it this parameter.
Sockjs relies on "faye-websocket" which has both a client and a websocket server designed to run on NodeJs, here is the suggestion.
Ps: I didn't find an equivalent form on the client side (there is no Npm.require)
Sorry, but I was not able to find the answer for this simple question after two attempts of googaling:
How can I get the current IP of the server connection a client is handled on? Is it possible to extract this somehow Meteor.status()?
(Background: we have different IPs which are served by the same instance. But we like to distinguish by the IP entry point.)
Meteor.status() don't have the information. But you can publish the IP address to the client or make a method that return it.
This is a pseudo-code and I don't know if this works. It's just an idea:
server.js:
var THIS_IP = '8.8.8.8'; // Try to get it dinamically with node or some npm package
Meteor.methods({
'serverIp': function () {
return THIS_IP;
}
});
client.js:
Meteor.call('serverIp', function (err, serverIp) { //do something with the IP });
EDIT: Sorry about this response. Just saw you have 2 IPs in same server. Maybe this hack can solve problems for now?
how to get external ip of the server from node.js
I am planning to use Meteor for a realtime logging application for various
My requirement is pretty simple, I will pass a log Message as request Parameter ( POST Or GET) from various application and Meteor need to simply update a collection.
I need to access Request Parameters in Meteor server code and update Mongo collection with the incoming logMessage. I cannot update Mongo Collection directly from existing applications, so please no replies suggesting the same.I want to know how can I do it from Meteor framework and not doing it by adding more packages.
EDIT: Updated to use Iron Router, the successor to Meteor Router.
Install Iron Router and define a server-side route:
Router.map(function () {
this.route('foo', {
where: 'server',
action: function () {
doSomethingWithParams(this.request.query);
}
});
});
So for a request like http://yoursite.com/foo?q=somequery&src=somesource, the variable this.request.query in the function above would be { q: 'somequery', src: 'somesource' } and therefore you can request individual parameters via this.request.query.q and this.request.query.src and the like. I've only tested GET requests, but POST and other request types should work identically; this works as of Meteor 0.7.0.1. Make sure you put this code inside a Meteor.isServer block or in a file in the /server folder in your project.
Original Post:
Use Meteorite to install Meteor Router and define a server-side route:
Meteor.Router.add('/foo', function() {
doSomethingWithParams(this.request.query);
});
So for a request like http://yoursite.com/foo?q=somequery&src=somesource, the variable this.request.query in the function above would be { q: 'somequery', src: 'somesource' } and therefore you can request individual parameters via this.request.query.q and this.request.query.src and the like. I've only tested GET requests, but POST and other request types should work identically; this works as of Meteor 0.6.2.1. Make sure you put this code inside a Meteor.isServer block or in a file in the /server folder in your project.
I know the questioner doesn't want to add packages, but I think that using Meteorite to install Meteor Router seems to me a more future-proof way to implement this as compared to accessing internal undocumented Meteor objects like __meteor_bootstrap__. When the Package API is finalized in a future version of Meteor, the process of installing Meteor Router will become easier (no need for Meteorite) but nothing else is likely to change and your code would probably continue to work without requiring modification.
I found a workaround to add a router to the Meteor application to handle custom requests.
It uses the connect router middleware which is shipped with meteor. No extra dependencies!
Put this before/outside Meteor.startup on the Server. (Coffeescript)
SomeCollection = new Collection("...")
fibers = __meteor_bootstrap__.require("fibers")
connect = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('connect')
app = __meteor_bootstrap__.app
router = connect.middleware.router (route) ->
route.get '/foo', (req, res) ->
Fiber () ->
SomeCollection.insert(...)
.run()
res.writeHead(200)
res.end()
app.use(router)
Use IronRouter, it's so easy:
var path = IronLocation.path();
As things stand, there isn't support for server side routing or specific actions on the server side when URLs are hit. So it's not easy to do what you want. Here are some suggestions.
You can probably achieve what you want by borrowing techniques that are used by the oauth2 package on the auth branch: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/auth/packages/accounts-oauth2-helper/oauth2_server.js#L100-109
However this isn't really supported so I'm not certain it's a good idea.
Your other applications could actually update the collections using DDP. This is probably easier than it sounds.
You could use an intermediate application which accepts POST/GET requests and talks to your meteor server using DDP. This is probably the technically easiest thing to do.
Maybe this one will help you?
http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_http_post