enable and/or disable client websocket connection when desired ?

[denden4444]

@ Links2004

Hi Markus

Thanks again for a great library.

Is it possible to invoke/enable the client to server connection when required ?
I need to :

1. Connect to a server.
2. Send the data
   Wait for ACKnowledgement from server
3. Disable/destroy/end the connection

I noticed in the examples the connection gets created but not destroyed at all.
The websocket loop is run continuously it seems.
Did I miss something important ?

As mentioned above I only need it up for the duration of the communication and then it needs to be closed. It would be great to websocketClient.start and a websocketClient.stop.

I would appreciate any help , extra info and/or feedback.

Thank you kindly

Den

[Links2004]

the use case for a Websocket connection is to have it all the time up to send data ;)
but you can disconnect via disconnect
https://github.com/Links2004/arduinoWebSockets/blob/master/src/WebSocketsClient.h#L80

after you have called disconnect you will need to stop calling the loop or the connection is established again.

[denden4444]

Hi Markus

Thanks a million for the reply ...
The place I'm trying to use this is in the code and setup I am working on in this issue https://github.com/Links2004/arduinoWebSockets/issues/371
And I am still having problems with that one.

I hope you can help and look forward to any further info.

Kind regards
Dennis

[me21]

@Links2004 it would be nice to incorporate connection checking into loop function, i.e. it should do nothing if begin wasn't called yet, or if disconnect was called last. It is somewhat surprising to get reconnect after disconnect call. Though it is not a very big deal.

[Links2004]

it is possible to change that but this change will brake all existing code that relay on that.
may disconnect can be get a parameter to disable the auto reconnect on loop call.

[me21]

Looks good to me, maybe not additional parameter, but functions setAutoReconnect, getAutoReconnect

[denden4444]

Hi all

Are there any updates on this please ? I am still battling to enable a connect/disconnect when desired.

If anyone else has solved this I would love to hear from you :-)

Kind regards
Dens

[denden4444]

Hi
I'm still battling with a disconnect when desired :-(
@Links2004
In an earlier reply you mention to stop calling loop :

the use case for a Websocket connection is to have it all the time up to send data ;)
but you can disconnect via disconnect
https://github.com/Links2004/arduinoWebSockets/blob/master/src/WebSocketsClient.h#L80

after you have called disconnect you will need to stop calling the loop or the connection is established again.

Do you have an example please showing how to stop calling the loop ?

Which loop exactly ?

Kind regards

Den