[12.x] Enhance eventStream to Support Custom Events and Start Messages

[devhammed]

[12.x] Enhance eventStream to Support Custom Events and Start Messages

Summary

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE: This PR changes the eventStream method in ResponseFactory by allowing customization of:

• Event Name ($as) – Previously hardcoded as "update", now configurable and the generator function can now yield Illuminate\Http\EventStream to customize the name per stream.
• Start Stream Message ($startStreamWith) – Optional message sent before streaming begins.
• End Stream Message ($endStreamWith) – Now optional instead of required.

Why This Change?

• More Flexible SSE Handling: Developers can now specify custom event names, making it easier to differentiate between different types of SSE messages and also they can now decide if they want start/end messages.
• Improved Client Communication: Some clients expect an initial message when connecting. The $startStreamWith parameter allows for this.

Implementation Details

The method signature now includes:

public function eventStream(
    Closure $callback, 
    array $headers = [], 
    string $as = 'update', 
    ?string $startStreamWith = null, 
    ?string $endStreamWith = '</stream>'
) {}

This has also been updated to fix the issue raised in the last PR:

Reverted this PR. The update "as" name should be customizable per update, not for the entire event stream.

I have added a data class that the generator function can yield to override the function $as parameter.

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Http\EventStream;

Route::get('/users', function () {
    return response()->eventStream(function () {
        $notifications = Notification::all();

        foreach ($notifications as $notification) {
            yield new EventStream(
		        event: 'notification',
                data: $notification->toJson(),
            );
            sleep(1);
        }
    }, startStreamWith: '[', endStreamWith: ']');
});

[ivan-plotnikov]

Thank you! I've really needed this