JAX-RS Simple SSE Sample

package com.oracle.gcs.pguo.examples.jaxrs.sse.simple;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;

import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.EventOutput;
import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.OutboundEvent;
import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.SseFeature;

@Path("sse")
public class SimpleSseResource {
	
	@GET
	@Path("simpleEvents")
	@Produces(SseFeature.SERVER_SENT_EVENTS)
	public EventOutput getServerSentEvents() {
		final EventOutput eventOutput = new EventOutput();

		new Thread(new Runnable() {
			@Override
			public void run() {
				try {
					// push message to client every 2 seconds
					// while(true) {
					for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
						try {
							Thread.sleep(2 * 1000);
						} catch (InterruptedException e) {
							e.printStackTrace();
						}
						final OutboundEvent.Builder eventBuilder = new OutboundEvent.Builder();
						eventBuilder.name("message-to-client");
						eventBuilder.data(String.class, "Hello world " + i
								+ "!");
						final OutboundEvent event = eventBuilder.build();
						eventOutput.write(event);
					}
				} catch (IOException e) {
					throw new RuntimeException("Error when writing the event.",
							e);
				} finally {
					try {
						// no more events, closed connection
						eventOutput.close();
					} catch (IOException ioClose) {
						throw new RuntimeException(
								"Error when closing the event output.", ioClose);
					}
				}
			}
		}).start();

		return eventOutput;
	}
}