HTML5 Server-Sent Events for Go

See http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ for the technical specification.

import "github.com/mdigger/sse"


var sse = new(sse.Server)

type Event struct {
    ID   int       `json:"id"`
    Time time.Time `json:"time"`
}

go func() {
    var id int
    for range time.Tick(5 * time.Second) {
        id++
        sse.Event(fmt.Sprintf("%04d", id), "event", 
        &Event{
            ID:   id,
            Time: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
        })
    }
}()

http.Handle("/events", sse)
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil))