Text frame filter for websocket frames

[Oswin Nathanial]

Hi Peter,

I see that you are working on 'ping/pong frame filter' and 'binary frame filter' on the 'filter' branch. I downloaded, built and tried these config elements and they look interesting. I'm not sure if it's on your todo list to create a similar filter for text frames as it might be really useful. The chat application that I am looking to test sends a lot of JSON formatted frames for various things such as typing, seen, online and so on. If such a text frame filter existed it would be a lot easier for us to only get the desired frames corresponding to a particular request frame. It would be even nicer if the filter could match the frames with regex (but maybe I'm asking for too much :p ) What do you think about this?

[Peter Doornbosch]

Hi Oswin,

Yes, sure, the text-filter is on the list. Actually it almost ready, the only thing i need to finish is the regex matching. ;-) No kiddin', we had the same thoughts about what would be usefull. So all you need is a little patience, and watch the repo!

[Peter Doornbosch]

TextFrameFilter is available on "filter" branch. Will probably be included in 0.8 release.

[Oswin Nathanial]

Thanks Peter for this feature. I verified the text frame filters and they seem to work great.

[Peter Doornbosch]

Cool! Thanks for letting me know.