Merge pull request #1 from loeffel-io/feature/keep-alive

added keepAlive

recws.go

@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ type RecConn struct {
 	NonVerbose bool
 	// SubscribeHandler fires after the connection successfully establish.
 	SubscribeHandler func() error
+	// KeepAliveTimeout is an interval for sending ping/pong messages
+	// disabled if 0
+	KeepAliveTimeout time.Duration
 
 	mu          sync.RWMutex
 	url         string
@@ -298,6 +301,41 @@ func (rc *RecConn) hasSubscribeHandler() bool {
 	return rc.SubscribeHandler != nil
 }
 
+func (rc *RecConn) getKeepAliveTimeout() time.Duration {
+	rc.mu.RLock()
+	defer rc.mu.RUnlock()
+
+	return rc.KeepAliveTimeout
+}
+
+func (rc *RecConn) keepAlive() {
+	var (
+		lastResponse = time.Now()
+		ticker       = time.NewTicker(rc.getKeepAliveTimeout())
+	)
+
+	rc.Conn.SetPongHandler(func(msg string) error {
+		lastResponse = time.Now()
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	go func() {
+		defer ticker.Stop()
+
+		for {
+			if err := rc.Conn.WriteControl(websocket.PingMessage, []byte{}, time.Now().Add(10*time.Second)); err != nil {
+				return
+			}
+
+			<-ticker.C
+			if time.Now().Sub(lastResponse) > rc.getKeepAliveTimeout() {
+				rc.closeAndReconnect()
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
 func (rc *RecConn) connect() {
 	b := rc.getBackoff()
 	rand.Seed(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano())
@@ -326,6 +364,10 @@ func (rc *RecConn) connect() {
 				}
 
 				log.Printf("Dial: connect handler was successfully established with %s\n", rc.url)
+
+				if rc.getKeepAliveTimeout() != 0 {
+					rc.keepAlive()
+				}
 			}
 
 			return