I am implementing an upload feature using Grails where basically a user gets to upload a text file and then the system will persist each line of that text file as a database record. While the uploading works fine, larger files take time to process and therefore they ask to have a progress bar so that users can determine if their upload is still processing or an actual error has occurred.
To do this, what I did is to create two URLs:
/uploadwhich is the actual URL that receives the uploaded text file./upload/status?uploadToken=which returns the status of a certain upload based on itsuploadToken.
What I did is after processing each line, the service will update a session-level counter variable:
// import ...
class UploadService {
Map upload(CommonsMultipartFile record, GrailsParameterMap params) {
Map response = [success: true]
try {
File file = new File(record.getOriginalFilename())
FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(file, record.getBytes())
HttpSession session = WebUtils.retrieveGrailsWebRequest().session
List<String> lines = FileUtils.readLines(file, "UTF-8"), errors = []
String uploadToken = params.uploadToken
session.status.put(uploadToken,
[message: "Checking content of the file of errors.",
size: lines.size(),
done: 0])
lines.eachWithIndex { l, li ->
// ... regex checking per line and appending any error to the errors List
session.status.get(uploadToken).done++
}
if(errors.size() == 0) {
session.status.put(uploadToken,
[message: "Persisting record to the database.",
size: lines.size(),
done: 0])
lines.eachWithIndex { l, li ->
// ... Performs GORM manipulation here
session.status.get(uploadToken).done++
}
}
else {
response.success = false
}
}
catch(Exception e) {
response.success = false
}
response << [errors: errors]
return response
}
}
Then create a simple WebSocket implementation that connects to the /upload/status?uploadToken= URL. The problem is that I cannot access the session variable on POGOs. I even change that POGO into a Grails service because I thought that is the cause of the issue, but I still can't access the session variable.
// import ...
@ServerEndpoint("/upload/status")
@WebListener
class UploadEndpointService implements ServletContextListener {
@OnOpen
public void onOpen(Session userSession) { /* ... */ }
@OnClose
public void onClose(Session userSession, CloseReason closeReason) { /* ... */ }
@OnError
public void onError(Throwable t) { /* ... */ }
@OnMessage
public void onMessage(String token, Session userSession) {
// Both of these cause IllegalStateException
def session = WebUtils.retrieveGrailsWebRequest().session
def session = RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes().getSession()
// This returns the session id but I don't know what to do with that information.
String sessionId = userSession.getHttpSessionId()
// Sends the upload status through this line
sendMessage((session.get(token) as JSON).toString(), userSession)
}
private void sendMessage(String message, Session userSession = null) {
Iterator<Session> iterator = users.iterator()
while(iterator.hasNext()) {
iterator.next().basicRemote.sendText(message)
}
}
}
And instead, gives me an error:
Caused by IllegalStateException: No thread-bound request found: Are you referring to request attributes outside of an actual web request, or processing a request outside of the originally receiving thread? If you are actually operating within a web request and still receive this message, your code is probably running outside of DispatcherServlet/DispatcherPortlet: In this case, use RequestContextListener or RequestContextFilter to expose the current request.
I already verified that the web socket is working by making it send a static String content. But what I want is to be able to get that counter and set it as the send message. I'm using Grails 2.4.4 and the Grails Spring Websocket plugin, while looks promising, is only available from Grails 3 onwards. Is there any way to achieve this, or if not, what approach should I use?
