WebSocketKit

WebSocketKit is a small wrapper around the `Network` framework to work with websocket connections

Installation

Swift Package Manager

To integrate using Apple’s Swift Package Manager, add the following as a dependency to your Package.swift:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/alexanderwe/WebSocketKit.git", from: "1.0.0")
]

Alternatively navigate to your Xcode project, select Swift Packages and click the + icon to search for WebSocketKit.

Manually

If you prefer not to use any of the aforementioned dependency managers, you can integrate WebSocketKit into your project manually. Simply drag the Sources Folder into your Xcode project.

Usage

At first import WebSocketKit

import WebSocketKit

Define a WebsSocket instance

let websocket = WebsSocket(url: URL(string: "wss://echo.websocket.org")!)

It also makes sense to create a instance of a class that conforms to the WebSocketConnectionDelegate in order to receive websocket events. Be aware that you also need to import the Network framework in order to have access to NWProtocolWebSocket.

import Network


class WebSocketDelegate: WebSocketConnectionDelegate {

    func webSocketDidConnect(connection: WebSocketConnection) {
        print("WebSocket did connect")
    }

    func websocketDidPrepare(connection: WebSocketConnection) {
        print("WebSocket did prepare")
    }

    func webSocketDidDisconnect(connection: WebSocketConnection, closeCode: NWProtocolWebSocket.CloseCode, reason: Data?) {
        print("WebSocket did disconnect")
    }

    func websocketDidCancel(connection: WebSocketConnection) {
        print("WebSocket did cancel")
    }

    func webSocketDidReceiveError(connection: WebSocketConnection, error: Error) {
        print("WebSocket did receive error: \(error)")
    }

    func webSocketDidReceivePong(connection: WebSocketConnection) {
        print("WebSocket did receive pong")
    }

    func webSocketDidReceiveMessage(connection: WebSocketConnection, string: String) {
        print("WebSocket did receive string message: \(string)")
    }

    func webSocketDidReceiveMessage(connection: WebSocketConnection, data: Data) {
        print("WebSocket did receive data message")
    }
}

Set an instance of the delegate instance to the Websocket instance and start listening for events

let delegate = WebSocketDelegate()
websocket.delegate = delegate

websocket.connect() // Connects to the url specified in the initializer and listens for messages

Custom headers

Often it is necessary to attach custom headers to the connection. You can do so by specifying them in the initializer of the Websocket class.

let websocket = Websocket(url: URL(string: "wss://echo.websocket.org")!,
                          additionalHeaders: [
                            "Authorization:": "Bearer <someToken>",
                            "My-Custom-Header-Key:": "My-Custom-Header-Value"
                          ]
)

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome 🙌