{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
{-# LANGUAGE PolyKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeApplications #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-}
{-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-}
{- |
Module: Servant.API.EventStream
Description: Server Sent Events for Servant Streams
Copyright: (c) 2026 Shaun Sharples
License: BSD3
Stability: alpha
-}
module Servant.API.EventStream (
-- * Server-Sent Events
-- | Event streams are implemented using servant's 'Stream' endpoint.
-- You should provide a handler that returns a stream of events that implements
-- 'ToSourceIO' where events have a 'ToServerEvent' instance.
--
-- Example:
--
-- > type MyApi = "books" :> ServerSentEvents (SourceIO Book)
-- >
-- > instance ToServerEvent Book where
-- > toServerEvent book = ...
-- >
-- > server :: Server MyApi
-- > server = streamBooks
-- > where streamBooks :: Handler (SourceIO Book)
-- > streamBooks = pure $ source [book1, ...]
ServerEvent (..),
ToServerEvent (..),
ServerSentEvents,
EventStream,
-- * Recommended headers for Server-Sent Events
-- | This is mostly to guide reverse-proxies like
-- <https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/x-accel/#x-accel-buffering nginx>.
--
-- Example:
--
-- > type MyApi = "books" :> ServerSentEvents (RecommendedEventSourceHeaders (SourceIO Book))
-- >
-- > server :: Server MyApi
-- > server = streamBooks
-- > where streamBooks :: Handler (RecommendedEventSourceHeaders (SourceIO Book))
-- > streamBooks = pure $ recommendedEventSourceHeaders $ source [book1, ...]
RecommendedEventSourceHeaders,
recommendedEventSourceHeaders,
)
where
import Control.Lens
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as LBS
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as C8
import Data.Kind (Type)
#if !MIN_VERSION_base(4,11,0)
import Data.Semigroup
#endif
import Data.Text (Text)
import GHC.Generics (Generic)
import Network.HTTP.Media ((//), (/:))
import qualified Servant as S
import qualified Servant.Foreign as S
import qualified Servant.Foreign.Internal as SFI
{- | A ServerSentEvents endpoint emits an event stream using the format described at
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events/Using_server-sent_events#event_stream_format>
-}
data ServerSentEvents (a :: Type)
deriving (Generic)
instance S.HasLink (ServerSentEvents a) where
type MkLink (ServerSentEvents a) r = r
toLink toA _ = toA
-- | Represents an event sent from the server to the client in Server-Sent Events (SSE).
data ServerEvent = ServerEvent
{ eventType :: !(Maybe LBS.ByteString)
-- ^ Optional field specifying the type of event. Can be used to distinguish between different kinds of events.
, eventId :: !(Maybe LBS.ByteString)
-- ^ Optional field providing an identifier for the event. Useful for clients to keep track of the last received event.
, eventData :: !LBS.ByteString
-- ^ The payload or content of the event. This is the main data sent to the client.
}
deriving (Show, Eq, Generic)
{- | This typeclass allows you to define custom event types that can be
transformed into the t'ServerEvent' type, which is used to represent events in
the Server-Sent Events (SSE) protocol.
-}
class ToServerEvent a where
toServerEvent :: a -> ServerEvent
instance (ToServerEvent a) => S.MimeRender EventStream a where
mimeRender _ = encodeServerEvent . toServerEvent
{- 1. Field names must not contain LF, CR or COLON characters.
2. Values must not contain LF or CR characters.
Multple consecutive `data:` fields will be joined with LFs on the client.
-}
-- | Encodes a t'ServerEvent' into a 'LBS.ByteString' that can be sent to the client.
encodeServerEvent :: ServerEvent -> LBS.ByteString
encodeServerEvent e =
optional "event:" (eventType e)
<> optional "id:" (eventId e)
<> mconcat (map (field "data:") (safelines (eventData e)))
where
optional name = maybe mempty (field name)
field name val = name <> val <> "\n"
-- discard CR and split LFs into multiple data values
safelines = C8.lines . C8.filter (/= '\r')
instance ToServerEvent ServerEvent where
toServerEvent = id
instance {-# OVERLAPPABLE #-} (ToServerEvent chunk, S.ToSourceIO chunk a) => S.HasServer (ServerSentEvents a) context where
type ServerT (ServerSentEvents a) m = S.ServerT (S.StreamGet ServerEventFraming EventStream a) m
route S.Proxy =
S.route
(S.Proxy :: S.Proxy (S.StreamGet ServerEventFraming EventStream a))
hoistServerWithContext S.Proxy =
S.hoistServerWithContext
(S.Proxy :: S.Proxy (S.StreamGet ServerEventFraming EventStream a))
instance {-# OVERLAPPING #-} (ToServerEvent chunk, S.ToSourceIO chunk a, S.GetHeaders (S.Headers h a)) => S.HasServer (ServerSentEvents (S.Headers h a)) context where
type ServerT (ServerSentEvents (S.Headers h a)) m = S.ServerT (S.StreamGet ServerEventFraming EventStream (S.Headers h a)) m
route S.Proxy =
S.route
(S.Proxy :: S.Proxy (S.StreamGet ServerEventFraming EventStream (S.Headers h a)))
hoistServerWithContext S.Proxy =
S.hoistServerWithContext
(S.Proxy :: S.Proxy (S.StreamGet ServerEventFraming EventStream (S.Headers h a)))
-- | a helper instance for <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant-foreign-0.15.3/docs/Servant-Foreign.html servant-foreign>
instance
(S.HasForeignType lang ftype a) =>
S.HasForeign lang ftype (ServerSentEvents a)
where
type Foreign ftype (ServerSentEvents a) = SFI.Req ftype
foreignFor lang S.Proxy S.Proxy req =
req
& SFI.reqFuncName . SFI._FunctionName %~ ("stream" :)
& SFI.reqMethod .~ method
& SFI.reqReturnType ?~ retType
where
retType = SFI.typeFor lang (S.Proxy :: S.Proxy ftype) (S.Proxy :: S.Proxy a)
method = S.reflectMethod (S.Proxy :: S.Proxy S.GET)
{- | A type representation of an event stream. It's responsible for setting proper content-type
and buffering headers, as well as for providing parser implementations for the streams.
Read more on <https://docs.servant.dev/en/stable/tutorial/Server.html#streaming-endpoints Servant Streaming Docs>
-}
data EventStream
instance S.Accept EventStream where
contentType _ = "text" // "event-stream" /: ("charset", "utf-8")
-- | Recommended headers for Server-Sent Events.
type RecommendedEventSourceHeaders (a :: Type) = S.Headers '[S.Header "X-Accel-Buffering" Text, S.Header "Cache-Control" Text] a
-- | Add the recommended headers for Server-Sent Events to the response.
recommendedEventSourceHeaders :: a -> RecommendedEventSourceHeaders a
recommendedEventSourceHeaders = S.addHeader @"X-Accel-Buffering" "no" . S.addHeader @"Cache-Control" "no-store"
-- | A framing strategy for Server-Sent Events.
data ServerEventFraming
-- | Frames the server events by joining chunks with a newline.
instance S.FramingRender ServerEventFraming where
framingRender _ f = fmap (\x -> f x <> "\n")