EventSource class
The interface is web content's interface to server-sent events.
An instance opens a persistent connection to an HTTP server,
which sends events in text/event-stream format. The connection
remains open until closed by calling EventSource.close().
EventTarget
EventSource
Once the connection is opened, incoming messages from the server
are delivered to your code in the form of events. If there is an
event field in the incoming message, the triggered event is the
same as the event field value. If no event field is present, then
a generic message event is fired.
Unlike WebSockets, server-sent events are unidirectional; that
is, data messages are delivered in one direction, from the server
to the client (such as a user's web browser). That makes them an
excellent choice when there's no need to send data from the
client to the server in message form. For example, is a useful
approach for handling things like social media status updates,
news feeds, or delivering data into a client-side storage
mechanism like IndexedDB or web storage.
Warning: When not used over HTTP/2, SSE suffers from a
limitation to the maximum number of open connections, which can
be specially painful when opening various tabs as the limit is
per browser and set to a very low number (6). The issue has been
marked as "Won't fix" in Chrome and Firefox. This limit is per
browser + domain, so that means that you can open 6 SSE
connections across all of the tabs to www.example1.com and
another 6 SSE connections to www.example2.com. (from
Stackoverflow). When using HTTP/2, the maximum number of
simultaneous HTTP streams is negotiated between the server and
the client (defaults to 100).
- Implemented types
- Available Extensions
- Annotations
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- @JS()
- @staticInterop
Constructors
- EventSource(String url, [EventSourceInit? eventSourceInitDict])
-
factory
Properties
- hashCode → int
-
The hash code for this object.
no setterinherited
- runtimeType → Type
-
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
no setterinherited
Methods
-
noSuchMethod(
Invocation invocation) → dynamic -
Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.
inherited
-
toString(
) → String -
A string representation of this object.
inherited
Operators
-
operator ==(
Object other) → bool -
The equality operator.
inherited