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Live Subscribing/Unsubscribing to streams

  • The following data can be sent through the websocket instance in order to subscribe/unsubscribe from streams. Examples can be seen below.
  • The id used in the JSON payloads is an unsigned INT used as an identifier to uniquely identify the messages going back and forth.

Subscribe to a stream​

Response

{
  "result": null,
  "id": 1
}
  • Request

{
"method": "SUBSCRIBE",
"params":
[
"BTC-210630-9000-P@ticker",
"BTC-210630-9000-P@depth"
],
"id": 1
}

Unsubscribe to a stream​

Response

{
  "result": null,
  "id": 312
}

  • Request

    {
    "method": "UNSUBSCRIBE",
    "params":
    [
    "BTC-210630-9000-P@ticker"
    ],
    "id": 312
    }

Listing Subscriptions​

Response

{
  "result": [
    "BTC-210630-9000-P@ticker"
  ],
  "id": 3
}

  • Request

    {
    "method": "LIST_SUBSCRIPTIONS",
    "id": 3
    }

Setting Properties​

Currently, the only property can be set is to set whether combined stream payloads are enabled are not. The combined property is set to false when connecting using /ws/ ("raw streams") and true when connecting using /stream/.

Response

{
  "result": null,
  "id": 5
}

  • Request

    {
    "method": "SET_PROPERTY",
    "params":
    [
    "combined",
    true
    ],
    "id": 5
    }

Retrieving Properties​

Response

{
  "result": true, // Indicates that combined is set to true.
  "id": 2
}

  • Request

    {
    "method": "GET_PROPERTY",
    "params":
    [
    "combined"
    ],
    "id": 2
    }      

Error Messages​

Error MessageDescription
{"code": 0, "msg": "Unknown property"}Parameter used in the SET_PROPERTY or GET_PROPERTY was invalid
{"code": 1, "msg": "Invalid value type: expected Boolean"}Value should only be true or false
{"code": 2, "msg": "Invalid request: property name must be a string"}Property name provided was invalid
{"code": 2, "msg": "Invalid request: request ID must be an unsigned integer"}Parameter id had to be provided or the value provided in the id parameter is an unsupported type
{"code": 2, "msg": "Invalid request: unknown variant %s, expected one of SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, LIST_SUBSCRIPTIONS, SET_PROPERTY, GET_PROPERTY at line 1 column 28"}Possible typo in the provided method or provided method was neither of the expected values
{"code": 2, "msg": "Invalid request: too many parameters"}Unnecessary parameters provided in the data
{"code": 2, "msg": "Invalid request: property name must be a string"}Property name was not provided
{"code": 2, "msg": "Invalid request: missing field method at line 1 column 73"}method was not provided in the data
{"code":3,"msg":"Invalid JSON: expected value at line %s column %s"}JSON data sent has incorrect syntax.    ## Trade Streams