Sends a heartbeat (ping) to all connected clients to keep connection…

[FrolikovEA]

…s alive. This method sends ping notifications to all active sessions without expecting a response, which helps prevent connection timeouts.

@return A Mono that completes when heartbeat has been sent to all sessions

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[FrolikovEA]

Sends a heartbeat (ping) to all connected clients to keep connections alive. This method sends ping notifications to all active sessions without expecting a response, which helps prevent connection timeouts.
@return A Mono that completes when heartbeat has been sent to all sessions

[tzolov]

@FrolikovEA can you elaborate on this? What connection timeouts do you see.
Also we just added the server ping() support, e.g. you can send pings but only from within the context of a running server operation (e.g. tool call, resource read, ....): #347

[FrolikovEA]

Good afternoon
this is a standard problem when using nargs in cursor
this method will help to periodically ping all sessions so that the connection does not drop.
for example, this is how I call it in Spring

@Bean
public Disposable heartbeatLoop(WebFluxSseServerTransportProvider provider) {
    return Flux.interval(Duration.ofSeconds(40))
            .flatMap(t -> provider.sendHeartbeat())
            .subscribe();
}