Server-sent Events for the ActivityPub API
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One of the user stories for the ActivityPub API task force is to enable real-time updates for clients.
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/issues/9
To help with this, I added a draft specification for server-sent events:
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-api/sse
If you're interested, please review and provide comments on the GitHub issue. I'd like to start a reference implementation soon.
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@evan There was some discussion of this on SocialHib a while back: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-proposal-c2s-websocket-endpoint/2955
Or you might have been aware of it already, in which case, sorry for the noise ;)
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evan makes a ton of sense! The ActivityPub API doesn't have a subscribe mechanism, so this makes sense.
SSE also makes sense vs web sockets. There are plans on our end to establish SSE as well, and deprecate our own websocket implementation.
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@evan There was some discussion of this on SocialHib a while back: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-proposal-c2s-websocket-endpoint/2955
Or you might have been aware of it already, in which case, sorry for the noise ;)
fentiger@mastodon.social Thanks, I'll look through it for ideas.
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Yeah I went the SSE route too. Nice n simple.
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Yeah I went the SSE route too. Nice n simple.
The problem for us is that we actually did take advantage of the bi-directional data flow available with web sockets. However, probably > 90% of our websocket calls were simple data requests, so we dropped back to bog-standard GET and POST. Why re-invent the wheel?
It's that other half where you want to communicate events in real-time, where SSE makes sense.
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