I am building a market scanner as a practice app and require a message to be sent to the client every 5 seconds with results from the scanner. I have chosen to do this over channels but have hit a snag. I am unsure with which is the best way to continuously send these messages. The recursive loop I …

You don’t need a GenServer, just send the message to self() and implement handle_info directly in the channel module. There’s an example of handle_info in the doc: Phoenix.Channel — Phoenix v1.8.8 The message would not include the socket, handle_info’s second argument already provides you the socke…

https://github.com/c-rack/quantum-elixir I have no idea if this lib can be used for such short intervals, or can be extended.

Process.send_after + implementing the handle_info callback in your channel should work fine, I’m not sure what you mean by “socket would be continuously passed back and forth”?

I would require the client socket to be passed to the GenServer and then used to make the handle_in call again ensuring the alert_work is sent to the correct client. Therefore the socket would just be passed back and forth. This is an issue because if I need to update the assigns for another task it…

Cool, I wasn’t aware of this. I appreciate your help :beers:

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Continuous server to client messaging over channels. Ideas?

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rdnChoi March 5, 2018, 4:42pm 5

Thanks, I’ll check it out.