Using std.net.curl to stream data
Chris Williams via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 28 15:40:51 PST 2015
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 14:18:38 UTC, Trollgeir wrote:
> I'm having some trouble trying to stream data to my plot.ly
> graph:
> https://plot.ly/62/~Trollgeir/
>
> The API: https://plot.ly/streaming/
>
> I am able to post messages that get recorded into the stream
> live, although right after curl uploads it, it just seems to
> wait for a response it's not getting, and eventually timeouts.
> Does anyone have any advice?
>
> auto client = HTTP("stream.plot.ly");
> client.addRequestHeader("plotly-streamtoken","e8bg6omat6");
> client.verbose = true;
>
> string msg = "{ \"x\": 500, \"y\": 500 } \n";
> client.postData(msg);
> client.perform;
You have to define a handler for HTTP.onReceive before calling
HTTP.perform. It will receive ubyte arrays for each packet that
comes in. For most purposes, you just copy that onto the end of a
string in an external scope. But if you're streaming content,
you'll need to do something more fancy.
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