Open/Close web socket connection

[gayathri-nair03]

Im using Apollo Android Client v1.0.0
I see that you have exposed enableSubscriptions() and disableSubscriptions(). These internally open/close the web socket connection.
Have you exposed any other methods (in v1.0.0) that let us open/close the web socket connection without having to worry about creating a subscription? Also, are there any such methods available in the latest version of Apollo Client (v2.3.1) ?

[martinbonnin]

Hi 👋 , Can you detail a bit more what you mean by "open/close the web socket connection without having to worry about creating a subscription" ? Why would you need other methods than enableSubscriptions()/disableSubscriptions() ?

[gayathri-nair03]

I need to open the web socket connection open on app init, not on first subscription. This is so that we can avoid the sudden spike/surge in connection requests, say when millions of users land on a certain screen altogether (worst case scenario). So we want to make web socket connection on app init itself and then subscribe later on.

[martinbonnin]

Thanks for the explanation! I'm not aware of anything like this but I'm not super familiar with subscription code so don't take this as gospel. I'll keep looking.

[tusharmath]

Typically you would want to keep the transport separate from graphql. Web socket Connection lifecycle should be managed by the dev.