How to connect Meteor to external websocket api using DDP?

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Hi there,

I am new to meteor, I wanted to connect my meteor app with 2 external websockets APIs using DDP protocol.
Is this possible with meteor? and what’s the best way to approach this?

Thanks
Ahmad

2

Do these APIs already exist, or do you mean you’re going to make them? If so, here’s the DDP spec.
To connect to a DDP API, use DDP.connect()

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Yes, they APIs already exist and I just want to be able to interact with them through my meteor app. Thanks for sending the links through, I’ll check them out. Is there any good DDP example/boilerplate I can look at to help me understand how it all fits together? Thanks for your help

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Here’s a quick example :slightly_smiling_face:

If the API was created like this:

var stuff = new Mongo.Collection('stuff')
Meteor.publish('allStuff', function(){
  return stuff.find()
})

To subscribe to a collection from it:

var connection = DDP.connect('example.com')
var stuff = new Mongo.collection('stuff', {connection:connection}) //note: the name string must be the same as the server collection
connection.subscribe('allStuff', ()=>{
  //the ready callback
  console.log(stuff.find().fetch())
})
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You can try it against meteor.com too!
Just open your meteor app in the browser and run this in the console:

var connection = DDP.connect('https://www.meteor.com')
var partners = new Mongo.Collection('partners', {connection:connection})
connection.subscribe('partners')
setTimeout(()=>{
  console.log(partners.find().fetch())
},3000)

For some reason the ready callback of the subscription seemed to be firing before it was actually ready, so “partners” was still empty :thinking: Not sure why. That’s why I used setTimeout instead.