Does Spring @SubscribeMapping really subscribe the client to some topic?

Question

I am using Spring Websocket with STOMP, Simple Message Broker. In my @Controller I use method-level @SubscribeMapping, which should subscribe the clien

Answer 1

I faced with the same problem, and finally switched to solution when I subscribe to both /topic and /app on a client, buffering everything received on /topic handler until /app-bound one will download all the chat history, that is what @SubscribeMapping returns. Then I merge all recent chat entries with those received on a /topic - there could be duplicates in my case.

Another working approach was to declare

registry.enableSimpleBroker("/app", "/topic");
registry.setApplicationDestinationPrefixes("/app", "/topic");

Obviously, not perfect. But worked :)