elstat/docs/streaming.md

Streaming API

Elstat's Streaming API enables clients to receive realtime updates from the server.

Clients can optionally subscribe to certain channels using the Streaming API if they don't want to have a lot of overhead.

Common payload format

Payloads can not exceed 256 bytes in size. Payloads are JSON encoded.

{
    "op": ANY_INTEGER
}

Data in packets are stored in specific fields, which are described for each OP below. They are not stored inside of a d object, like Discord's gateway.

Error codes

Error code	Name
4200	INVALID_PAYLOAD
4420	TOO_MUCH

OP Codes

OP Int	OP Name	Sent/Received by client
-1	UNSUBSCRIBE	Sent
0	SUBSCRIBE	Sent
1	SUBSCRIBED	Received
2	UNSUBSCRIBED	Received
3	DATA	Received

OP Payloads

• SUBSCRIBE
  • field: channels (list[str]), array of channels you want to subscribe to.
  • reply: SUBSCRIBED payload.
• UNSUBSCRIBE
  • field: channels (list[str]), array of channels you want to unsubscribe from.
  • reply: UNSUBSCRIBED payload.
• SUBSCRIBED
  • field: channels (list[str]), array of channels you succesfully subscribed to.
• UNSUBSCRIBED
  • field: channels (list[str]), array of channels you succesfully unsubscribed from.
• DATA
  • field: c (str), the channel the data is coming from.
  • data: d (list[any]), the data coming in from the channel.
    • The first element of d is an integer, encoding an UNIX timestamp with millisecond precision.
    • The second element of d is described on Channel types

Channel names

Clients subscribe to channels to receive specific data. Channel names are formatted like: <type>:<name>

e.g status:elixire and graph:elixire

Channel types

• status channel
  • Returns a boolean, representing the status of the service
• latency channel
  • Returns an integer, representing the latency of the service, in milliseconds.

Connection logic

• Connect a websocket to /api/streaming.
• Send a SUBSCRIBE payload, receive SUBSCRIBED back
• Listen to DATA payloads and update local state as needed.