README.md

micronaut-sse-rxjava

Micronaut example event flow to SSE

Steps to exercise the example:

1. ./gradlew run
2. Open localhost:8080 in any non IE browser
3. curl -X POST -d '{"name":"John"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/author/publish
4. View the event was received and output to the page

Explanation:

Static resources is used to render an index.html page when accessing the root / URL. That page also brings in an sse.js file that uses the standard Server Sent Event API in JavaScript to listen for events and display them on the page.

An AuthorService is responsible for allowing subscribers to a stream of Author objects. The AuthorController returns a modified stream that wraps each author into an Event. An endpoint on the AuthorController allows Author objects to be sent via JSON and added onto the stream. Anywhere else in the code the AuthorService could be used to publish events. Anywhere else in the code one could subscribe to those events and receive Author objects.