[Notice]: v7.0.0 renames this package from realtime-csharp to Supabase.Realtime. The depreciation notice has been set in NuGet. The API remains the same.
BREAKING CHANGES MOVING FROM v5.x.x to v6.x.x
The realtime client now takes a "fail-fast" approach. On establishing an initial connection, client will throw
a RealtimeException in ConnectAsync() if the socket server is unreachable. After an initial connection has been
established, the client will continue attempting reconnections indefinitely until disconnected.
[Major, New] C# EventHandlers have been changed to delegates. This should allow for cleaner event data access over
the previous subclassed EventArgs setup. Events are scoped accordingly. For example, the RealtimeSocket error
handlers will receive events regarding socket connectivity; whereas the RealtimeChannel error handlers will receive
events according to Channel joining/leaving/etc. This is implemented with the following methods prefixed by (
Add/Remove/Clear):
[Major, new] ClientOptions.Logger has been removed in favor of Client.AddDebugHandler() which allows for
implementing custom logging solutions if desired.
The bulk of this library is a translation and c-sharp-ification of
the supabase/realtime-js library.
The Websocket-sharp implementation that Realtime-csharp is dependent on does not support TLS1.3
Getting Started
Care was had to make this API as easy<sup>tm</sup> to interact with as possible. Connect() and Subscribe()
have await-able signatures
which allow Users to be assured that a connection exists prior to interacting with it.
var endpoint = "ws://realtime-dev.localhost:4000/socket";
client = new Client(endpoint);
await client.ConnectAsync();
// Shorthand for registering a postgres_changes subscription
var channel = client.Channel("realtime", "public", "todos");
// Listen to Updates
channel.AddPostgresChangeHandler(ListenType.Updates, (_, change) =>
{
var model = change.Model<Todo>();
var oldModel = change.OldModel<Todo>();
});
await channel.Subscribe();
Leveraging Postgrest.BaseModels, one ought to be able to coerce SocketResponse Records into their associated models by
calling:
// ...
var channel = client.Channel("realtime", "public", "users");
channel.AddPostgresChangeHandler(ListenType.Inserts, (_, change) =>
{
var model = change.Model<Todo>();
});
await channel.Subscribe();
Broadcast
"Broadcast follows the publish-subscribe pattern where a client publishes messages to a channel with a unique
identifier. For example, a user could send a message to a channel with id room-1.
Other clients can elect to receive the message in real-time by subscribing to the channel with id room-1. If these
clients are online and subscribed then they will receive the message.
Broadcast works by connecting your client to the nearest Realtime server, which will communicate with other servers to
relay messages to other clients.
A common use-case is sharing a user's cursor position with other clients in an online game."
class MouseBroadcast : BaseBroadcast<MouseStatus> { }
class MouseStatus
{
[JsonProperty("mouseX")]
public float MouseX { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("mouseY")]
public float MouseY { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("userId")]
public string UserId { get; set; }
}
Listen for typed broadcast events:
var channel = supabase.Realtime.Channel("cursor");
var broadcast = channel.Register<MouseBroadcast>(false, true);
broadcast.AddBroadcastEventHandler((sender, _) =>
{
// Retrieved typed model.
var state = broadcast.Current();
Debug.WriteLine($"{state.Payload}: {state.Payload.MouseX}:{state.Payload.MouseY}");
});
await channel.Subscribe();
Broadcast an event:
var channel = supabase.Realtime.Channel("cursor");
var data = new CursorBroadcast { Event = "cursor", Payload = new MouseStatus { MouseX = 123, MouseY = 456 } };
channel.Send(ChannelType.Broadcast, data);
Presence
"Presence utilizes an in-memory conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) to track and synchronize shared state in an
eventually consistent manner. It computes the difference between existing state and new state changes and sends the
necessary updates to clients via Broadcast.
When a new client subscribes to a channel, it will immediately receive the channel's latest state in a single message
instead of waiting for all other clients to send their individual states.
Clients are free to come-and-go as they please, and as long as they are all subscribed to the same channel then they
will all have the same Presence state as each other.
The neat thing about Presence is that if a client is suddenly disconnected (for example, they go offline), their state
will be automatically removed from the shared state. If you've ever tried to build an “I'm online” feature which handles
unexpected disconnects, you'll appreciate how useful this is."
class UserPresence: BasePresence
{
[JsonProperty("lastSeen")]
public DateTime LastSeen { get; set; }
}
Listen for typed presence events:
var presenceId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
var channel = supabase.Realtime.Channel("last-seen");
var presence = channel.Register<UserPresence>(presenceId);
presence.AddPresenceEventHandler(EventType.Sync, (sender, type) =>
{
foreach (var state in presence.CurrentState)
{
var userId = state.Key;
var lastSeen = state.Value.First().LastSeen;
Debug.WriteLine($"{userId}: {lastSeen}");
}
});
await channel.Subscribe();
Track a user presence event:
var presenceId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
var channel = supabase.Realtime.Channel("last-seen");
var presence = channel.Register<UserPresence>(presenceId);
presence.Track(new UserPresence { LastSeen = DateTime.Now });
Postgres Changes
"Postgres Changes enable you to listen to database changes and have them broadcast to authorized clients based
on Row Level Security (RLS) policies.
This works by Realtime polling your database's logical replication slot for changes, passing those changes to
the apply_rls SQL function to determine which clients have permission,
and then using Broadcast to send those changes to clients.
Realtime requires a publication called supabase_realtime to determine which tables to poll. You must add tables to
this publication prior to clients subscribing to channels that want to listen for database changes.
We strongly encourage you to enable RLS on your database tables and have RLS policies in place to prevent unauthorized
parties from accessing your data."
var channel = supabase.Realtime.Channel("public-users");
channel.Register(new PostgresChangesOptions("public", "users"));
channel.AddPostgresChangeHandler(ListenType.All, (sender, change) =>
{
switch (change.Event)
{
case EventType.Insert:
// User has been created
break;
case EventType.Update:
// User has been updated
break;
case EventType.Delete:
// User has been deleted
break;
}
});
await channel.Subscribe();
Status
Client Connects to Websocket
Socket Event Handlers
Open
Close - when channel is explicitly closed by server or by calling Channel.Unsubscribe()
Error
Realtime Event Handlers
INSERT
UPDATE
DELETE
*
Join channels of format:
{database}
{database}:{schema}
{database}:{schema}:{table}
{database}:{schema}:{table}:{col}.eq.{val}
Responses supply a Generically Typed Model derived from BaseModel
We are more than happy to have contributions! Please submit a PR.
Testing
Note that the latest versions of supabase/realtime expect to be able to access a subdomain matching the tenant. For
the case of testing, this means that realtime-dev.localhost:4000 should be available. To have tests run locally,
please add a hosts entry on your system for: 127.0.0.1 realtime-dev.localhost