Concurrent message handling

config.go

@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ import "time"
 
 // Config melody configuration struct.
 type Config struct {
-	WriteWait         time.Duration // Milliseconds until write times out.
-	PongWait          time.Duration // Timeout for waiting on pong.
-	PingPeriod        time.Duration // Milliseconds between pings.
-	MaxMessageSize    int64         // Maximum size in bytes of a message.
-	MessageBufferSize int           // The max amount of messages that can be in a sessions buffer before it starts dropping them.
+	WriteWait                 time.Duration // Duration until write times out.
+	PongWait                  time.Duration // Timeout for waiting on pong.
+	PingPeriod                time.Duration // Duration between pings.
+	MaxMessageSize            int64         // Maximum size in bytes of a message.
+	MessageBufferSize         int           // The max amount of messages that can be in a sessions buffer before it starts dropping them.
+	ConcurrentMessageHandling bool          // Handle messages from sessions concurrently.
 }
 
 func newConfig() *Config {

melody.go

@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ func (m *Melody) HandlePong(fn func(*Session)) {
 }
 
 // HandleMessage fires fn when a text message comes in.
+// NOTE: by default Melody handles messages sequentially for each
+// session. This has the effect that a message handler exceeding the
+// read deadline (Config.PongWait, by default 1 minute) will time out
+// the session. Concurrent message handling can be turned on by setting
+// Config.ConcurrentMessageHandling to true.
 func (m *Melody) HandleMessage(fn func(*Session, []byte)) {
 	m.messageHandler = fn
 }

melody_test.go

@@ -765,3 +765,84 @@ func TestHandleSentMessage(t *testing.T) {
 		conn.WriteMessage(websocket.BinaryMessage, TestMsg)
 	})
 }
+
+func TestConcurrentMessageHandling(t *testing.T) {
+	testTimeout := func(cmh bool, msgType int) bool {
+		base := time.Millisecond * 100
+		done := make(chan struct{})
+
+		handler := func(s *Session, msg []byte) {
+			if len(msg) == 0 {
+				done <- struct{}{}
+				return
+			}
+
+			time.Sleep(base * 2)
+		}
+
+		ws := NewTestServerHandler(func(session *Session, msg []byte) {})
+		if msgType == websocket.TextMessage {
+			ws.m.HandleMessage(handler)
+		} else {
+			ws.m.HandleMessageBinary(handler)
+		}
+
+		ws.m.Config.ConcurrentMessageHandling = cmh
+		ws.m.Config.PongWait = base
+
+		var errorSet bool
+		ws.m.HandleError(func(s *Session, err error) {
+			errorSet = true
+			done <- struct{}{}
+		})
+
+		server := httptest.NewServer(ws)
+		defer server.Close()
+
+		conn := MustNewDialer(server.URL)
+		defer conn.Close()
+
+		conn.WriteMessage(msgType, TestMsg)
+		conn.WriteMessage(msgType, TestMsg)
+
+		time.Sleep(base / 4)
+
+		conn.WriteMessage(msgType, nil)
+
+		<-done
+
+		return errorSet
+	}
+
+	t.Run("text should error", func(t *testing.T) {
+		errorSet := testTimeout(false, websocket.TextMessage)
+
+		if !errorSet {
+			t.FailNow()
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("text should not error", func(t *testing.T) {
+		errorSet := testTimeout(true, websocket.TextMessage)
+
+		if errorSet {
+			t.FailNow()
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("binary should error", func(t *testing.T) {
+		errorSet := testTimeout(false, websocket.BinaryMessage)
+
+		if !errorSet {
+			t.FailNow()
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("binary should not error", func(t *testing.T) {
+		errorSet := testTimeout(true, websocket.BinaryMessage)
+
+		if errorSet {
+			t.FailNow()
+		}
+	})
+}

session.go

@@ -133,13 +133,20 @@ func (s *Session) readPump() {
 			break
 		}
 
-		if t == websocket.TextMessage {
-			s.melody.messageHandler(s, message)
+		if s.melody.Config.ConcurrentMessageHandling {
+			go s.handleMessage(t, message)
+		} else {
+			s.handleMessage(t, message)
 		}
+	}
+}
 
-		if t == websocket.BinaryMessage {
-			s.melody.messageHandlerBinary(s, message)
-		}
+func (s *Session) handleMessage(t int, message []byte) {
+	switch t {
+	case websocket.TextMessage:
+		s.melody.messageHandler(s, message)
+	case websocket.BinaryMessage:
+		s.melody.messageHandlerBinary(s, message)
 	}
 }