I have an application that subscribes to a web-socket and, from time to time, receives from it some information. In some cases it might happen that my application does not receive anything for a relatively long time. In that case I might suspect that web-socket have "died". However, it might also be the case that web-socket just does not have anything to send and I just need to wait longer.
So, in such situations I do not want to guess what was the reason for the delay. I just want "actively" ask the web-socket if it is still alive. I have learned that one can do it with "ping" but I am not sure how exactly it works.
For example I can do the follwing:
pong_waiter = await ws.ping()
But what I should do with this object? I guess I need to see a "pong" string when the web-socket is alive, but where can I see it? What does return this string?
ADDED
If I execute:
pong_waiter = await ws.ping()
await pong_waiter
I did not get anything. After that I also execute:
pong_waiter.result()
It also returns nothing. But I know what web-socket is alive (I am still getting information from it).
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If I execute:
pong_waiter
I get:
<Future finished result=None>
So, where is "pong"?
You should await it if you want to wait for the pong:
pong_waiter = await ws.ping()
await pong_waiter
If you expect the pong to contain a custom payload, you can most likely get it from the pong_waiter Future by calling result() after it completes.