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Subscribe to Multiple Bitfinex Tickers on One Connection

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Subscribes to multiple ticker symbols on the public Bitfinex websocket ticker channel and receives ticker updates.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoWs
    Variant vRest
    Handle hoRest
    String sResponseBody
    Handle hoJson1
    Boolean iFinalFrame
    Handle hoJson2
    Boolean iReceivedFinalFrame
    Integer iNumUpdatesReceived
    String sReceivedText
    String sTemp1
    Integer iTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatWebSocket)) To hoWs
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoWs))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoWs
    End

    // For brevity, this example does not check for errors when etablishing the WebSocket connection.
    // See Establish WebSocket Connection for more complete sample code for making the connection.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatRest)) To hoRest
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoRest))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoRest
    End

    // Connect to api.bitfinex.com
    Get ComConnect Of hoRest "api.bitfinex.com" 443 True False To iSuccess
    Get pvComObject of hoRest to vRest
    Get ComUseConnection Of hoWs vRest To iSuccess
    Get ComAddClientHeaders Of hoWs To iSuccess

    Get ComFullRequestNoBody Of hoRest "GET" "/ws" To sResponseBody
    Get ComValidateServerHandshake Of hoWs To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoWs To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Showln sResponseBody
        Get ComResponseHeader Of hoRest To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // After connecting, the bitfinex websocket server will send
    // an info message that contains the actual version of the websocket stream.
    // Receive that message..
    Get ComReadFrame Of hoWs To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
        Showln "Failed to receive a frame"
        Get ComReadFrameFailReason Of hoWs To iTemp1
        Showln "ReadFrame fail reason = " iTemp1
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoWs To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // We should get this:
    // {"event":"info","version":1.1,"platform":{"status":1}}
    Get ComGetFrameData Of hoWs To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1

    // Subscribe to the BTCUSD ticker feed.
    // See https://docs.bitfinex.com/docs for more information.
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatJsonObject)) To hoJson1
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoJson1))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoJson1
    End
    Get ComAppendString Of hoJson1 "event" "subscribe" To iSuccess
    Get ComAppendString Of hoJson1 "channel" "ticker" To iSuccess
    Get ComAppendString Of hoJson1 "pair" "BTCUSD" To iSuccess

    Move True To iFinalFrame
    Get ComEmit Of hoJson1 To sTemp1
    Get ComSendFrame Of hoWs sTemp1 iFinalFrame To iSuccess

    // Subscribe to the ETHUSD ticker feed.
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatJsonObject)) To hoJson2
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoJson2))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoJson2
    End
    Get ComAppendString Of hoJson2 "event" "subscribe" To iSuccess
    Get ComAppendString Of hoJson2 "channel" "ticker" To iSuccess
    Get ComAppendString Of hoJson2 "pair" "ETHUSD" To iSuccess

    Get ComEmit Of hoJson2 To sTemp1
    Get ComSendFrame Of hoWs sTemp1 iFinalFrame To iSuccess

    // Begin reading the ticker feed.
    // / This will include a single confirmation response for each subscription.

    // We'll just read the 1st 5 updates and then exit..
    Move False To iReceivedFinalFrame
    Move 0 To iNumUpdatesReceived
    While (iNumUpdatesReceived < 7)

        Get ComReadFrame Of hoWs To iSuccess
        If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
            Showln "Failed to receive a frame"
            Get ComReadFrameFailReason Of hoWs To iTemp1
            Showln "ReadFrame fail reason = " iTemp1
            Get ComLastErrorText Of hoWs To sTemp1
            Showln sTemp1
            Procedure_Return
        End

        // The responses we desire are in Text frames, where the opcode = 1.
        Get ComFrameOpcodeInt Of hoWs To iTemp1
        If (iTemp1 = 1) Begin
            Get ComGetFrameData Of hoWs To sReceivedText
            Showln sReceivedText
            // Should receive a line of text such as this:
            // [2751,7349,36.34269559,7349.1,41.01777063,-116.2,-0.0156,7349.1,22188.26055319,7560,7270.5]
            // Initially, a single confirmation response for each subscription would be received, such as this:
            // {"event":"subscribed","channel":"ticker","chanId":810,"pair":"BTCUSD"}
            Move (iNumUpdatesReceived + 1) To iNumUpdatesReceived
        End

    Loop

    // This is sample output:
    // You can see that the 1st message received is the subscription confirmation for the BTCUSD subscribe request.
    // The next message is a BTCUSD ticker update.
    // The next message is the confirmation for the ETHUSD subscription.
    // The next message is an ETHUSD update.
    // The BTCUSD channel ID is "537", and the ETHUSD channel ID is "700".  The channel IDs are provided in the 
    // subscription confirmation messages.  Each ticker update begins with the channel ID..

    // {"event":"subscribed","channel":"ticker","chanId":537,"pair":"BTCUSD"}
    // [537,6457.9,79.59102302,6458,22.49395741,-24.1,-0.0037,6457.9,13644.52820029,6540,6370.76958739]
    // {"event":"subscribed","channel":"ticker","chanId":700,"pair":"ETHUSD"}
    // [700,496.9,247.24493326,496.92,284.09636979,-2.47,-0.0049,496.9,74154.05945261,502.85,486.96]
    // [537,"hb"]
    // [700,"hb"]
    // [700,496.92,233.34338276,496.93,431.78867277,-2.45,-0.0049,496.92,74167.99173586,502.85,486.96]

    // Close the websocket connection.
    Get ComSendClose Of hoWs True 1000 "Closing this websocket." To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoWs To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // Read the Close response.
    Get ComReadFrame Of hoWs To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess <> True) Begin
        Get ComReadFrameFailReason Of hoWs To iTemp1
        Showln "ReadFrame fail reason = " iTemp1
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoWs To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Showln "Success."


End_Procedure