Node JS Examples

node.js

Remember to subscribe to the feed(s) you're using via the web interface!

var prettyjson = require('prettyjson'),
    StompClient = require('stomp-client').StompClient;

var destination = '/topic/TRAIN_MVT_ALL_TOC',
    client = new StompClient('datafeeds.networkrail.co.uk', 61618, 'emailaddress', 'your_password', '1.0');

client.connect(function(sessionId) {
    console.log('Trying to connect...');
    client.subscribe(destination, function(body, headers) {
        console.log(prettyjson.render(JSON.parse(body)));
    });
});

node.js (Stompit)

Using stompit library from https://github.com/gdaws/node-stomp

var stompit = require("stompit");
var async = require("async");

// Connect options with standard headers
var connectOptions = {
    "host": "datafeeds.networkrail.co.uk",
    "port": 61618,
    "connectHeaders": {
        "heart-beat": "15000,15000",// hear-beat of 15 seconds
        "client-id": "",            // request a durable subscription - set this to the login name you use to subscribe
        "host": "/",
        "login": "",                // your username
        "passcode": ""              // your password
    }
};

// Reconnect management for stompit client
var reconnectOptions = {
    "initialReconnectDelay": 10,    // milliseconds delay of the first reconnect
    "maxReconnectDelay": 30000,     // maximum milliseconds delay of any reconnect
    "useExponentialBackOff": true,  // exponential increase in reconnect delay
    "maxReconnects": 30,            // maximum number of failed reconnects consecutively
    "randomize": false              // randomly choose a server to use when reconnecting
                                    // (there are no other servers at this time)    
};

var connectionManager = new stompit.ConnectFailover([connectOptions], reconnectOptions);

connectionManager.connect(function (error, client, reconnect) {
    if (error) {
        console.log("Terminal error, gave up reconnecting");
        return;
    }

    client.on("error", function (error) {
        console.log("Connection lost. Reconnecting...");
        reconnect();
    });

    var headers = {
        "destination": "/topic/TRAIN_MVT_ALL_TOC",           // subscribe for a destination to which messages are sent
        "activemq.subscriptionName": "somename-train_mvt",   // request a durable subscription - set this to an unique string for each feed
        "ack": "client"                                      // the client will send the server ACK frames for the messages it processes
    };
    
    client.subscribe(headers, function (error, message) {
        if (error) {
            console.log("Subscription failed:", error.message);
            return;
        }
        message.readString("utf-8", function (error, body) {
            if (error) {
                console.log("Failed to read a message", error);
                return;
            }
            if (body) {
                var data;
                try {
                    data = JSON.parse(body);
                } catch (e) {
                    console.log("Failed to parse JSON", e);
                    return;
                }
                async.each(data,
                    function(item, next) {
                        // Look for Train Activation messages (msg_type 0001)
                        if (item.header && item.header.msg_type == "0001") {
                            console.log(
                                "Train", 
                                item.body.train_id, 
                                "activated at stanox", 
                                item.body.tp_origin_stanox ? item.body.tp_origin_stanox : item.body.sched_origin_stanox
                            );
                        }
                        next();
                    }
                );
            }
            client.ack(message); // Send ACK frame to server
        });
    });
});