Add support for sending direct messages to connected STOMP clients [SPR-10750]

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Rossen Stoyanchev opened SPR-10750 and commented

When application code needs to send a message to a STOMP client connected over WebSocket, it has no access to information such as the WebSocket session (and sessionId) or even which server the client is connected to. This may be needed in an exception handling method, or in an asynchronously executing method that needs to target the user (e.g. with a trade confirmation).

This ticket should make it easy to send messages to a specific user from anywhere within the application.

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Affects: 4.0 M1

This issue is a sub-task of #13994

[spring-projects-issues]

Rossen Stoyanchev commented

The support in M2 is enabled through a messaging template that accepts a user name and target destination. There is also an @ReplyToUser annotation that sends the return value as a message to the specified destination based on the currently logged in user.