Executing send_message from Actix Websocket Chat example

[NielDuysters]

Hello.

In the Websocket chat example server.rs has this code snippet:

/// Handler for Message message.
impl Handler<ClientMessage> for ChatServer {
    type Result = ();

    fn handle(&mut self, msg: ClientMessage, _: &mut Context<Self>) {
        self.send_message(&msg.room, msg.msg.as_str(), msg.id);
    }
}

I want to execute send_message() from any place in my code. For example from a Actix route-function. This way I can make a kind of push-notification system based on this example.

This is my attempt:

async fn send_test(srv: web::Data<actix::Addr<websocket_server::ChatServer>>) {
    srv.get_ref().send_message("main", "test message", 1);
}

Error:

error[E0599]: no method named `send_message` found for reference `&actix::Addr<ChatServer>` in the current scope
    --> src/main.rs:1161:19
     |
1161 |     srv.get_ref().send_message("main", "test message", 1);
     |                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^ method not found in `&actix::Addr<ChatServer>`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0599`.

So how would I execute send_message() from any place in my code? Thanks!

[NielDuysters]

Solution:

async fn send_test(
    srv: web::Data<actix::Addr<websocket_server::ChatServer>>,
) -> Result<HttpResponse> {
    srv.send(websocket_server::ClientMessage {
        id: 0,
        msg: "Test 123".to_string(),
        room: "main".to_string(),
    })
    .await;

    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().content_type("text/plain").body("OK"))
}