From 9769e0fb77cae6c99fb54671d869f5cf3fe06038 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gleason <alex@alexgleason.me>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:05:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Discard streaming events with empty data

---
 app/gabsocial/stream.js | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/gabsocial/stream.js b/app/gabsocial/stream.js
index fad857557..b3ee6a6f9 100644
--- a/app/gabsocial/stream.js
+++ b/app/gabsocial/stream.js
@@ -76,9 +76,18 @@ export default function getStream(streamingAPIBaseURL, accessToken, stream, { co
   const ws = new WebSocketClient(`${streamingAPIBaseURL}/api/v1/streaming/?${params.join('&')}`, accessToken);
 
   ws.onopen      = connected;
-  ws.onmessage   = e => received(JSON.parse(e.data));
   ws.onclose     = disconnected;
   ws.onreconnect = reconnected;
 
+  ws.onmessage   = (e) => {
+    if (!e.data) return;
+    try {
+      received(JSON.parse(e.data));
+    } catch(error) {
+      console.error(e);
+      console.error(`Could not parse the above streaming event.\n${error}`)
+    }
+  }
+
   return ws;
 };