Ping

Cloud-API and Go Gateway provide a WebSocket ping request that can be used to measure the latency from the endpoint and to keep the WebSocket connection alive.

REQUEST

Method: ping

Parameters: None

Examples

Cloud-API

wscat -c wss://api.blxrbdn.com/ws --header "Authorization: <YOUR-AUTHORIZATION-HEADER>"
> {"id": 1, "method": "ping", "params": null}
< ......

Go Gateway

wscat -c ws://127.0.0.1:28333/ws --header "Authorization: <YOUR-AUTHORIZATION-HEADER>"
> {"id": 1, "method": "ping", "params": null}
< ......

We assume that the Gateway IP is 127.0.0.1 with ws port 28333

RESPONSE

Result Fields

Result Field	Description
pong	The UTC time (in microsecond format) that WS server receives ping request.

Example

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "1",
  "result": {
    "pong": "2021-10-20 17:53:54.950292"
  }
}