A method that would expose a native WebSocket Object.

[dawid-niedzwiecki]

🚀 Feature

It would be great to be able to check if the connection with the websocket (Realtime) is open on android/flutter. A method, that would expose the a WebSocket Object would allow that.

Have you spent some time to check if this issue has been raised before?

I've been told by @TorstenDittmann to raise this issue.

Have you read the Code of Conduct?

I did :)

Pitch

Well, Android sometimes closes the websocket connection when the screen is turned off. An easy way to re-connect with the Realtime service, would be to make use of Flutters AppLifecycleState. One could listen for the AppLifecycleState.resumed and reconnect.

[TorstenDittmann]

@lohanidamodar will exposing the WebSocket instance be a problem for Flutter?

[lohanidamodar]

@TorstenDittmann Apart from Flutter web, I should be able to expose web socket if needed. However, if I do expose, and someone closes web socket from outside, SDK will cause bunch of unintended memory links as there would be streams, and channels not properly closed. May be we should just expose whether or not the connection is alive?

[outrelouxhe]

I like the idea of @lohanidamodar to just expose the connection alive status. In Flutter, when the apps resume from background, we don't have any way to check if the realtime connection is still alive... So right now I need to close it and reopen it, but it leads sometimes to receiving realtime messages multiple times.

[Schrolli91]

Any updates on this topic so far?
I also have the problem, that the socket is offline after awake from sleep on Android.
And i have no idea how to detect the broken socket or reconnect.