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mrenner1-Visitor
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September 29, 2016
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Websocket connection between Thingworx and a websocket-server.

  • September 29, 2016
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Hello community,

I want to open a websocket connection between Thingworx and a websocket-server for subscribing data.

I have seen that such services for http protocol exist in Thingworx:

var result = Resources["ContentLoaderFunctions"].LoadJSON(params);

So my question is:

Is there any possibility to do almost the same via websocket communication?

Thanks a lot for help,

Max

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ttielebein5-Regular Member
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September 30, 2016

Why aren't you just using the EMS or one of the SDKs, which handle the websocket communication for you?

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    mrenner1-VisitorAuthor
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    October 4, 2016

    Thanks for comment.

    Yes I could handle the websocket communication using one of the SDKs.

    But I thought there will be an out of the box solution for websockets in thingworx.

    Do you know if there is any way to do this out of the box?

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    mrenner1-VisitorAuthor
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    October 12, 2016

    Thanks again for your help Aanjan.

    I have not a possibility of accessing the server through REST calls because its a websocket communication via websocket protocoll.

    When you say "If there is no API to hit/ access, we might need to look into leveraging lua." do you mean to use the EMS and write a websocket client in LUA Script?

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