Creating a private chat between a key using a node.js and socket.io
How do I emit a message to all users in a private chat sharing a conversation_id using node.js and socket.io?
var express = require('express'),
app = express(),
server = require('http').createServer(app),
io = require('socket.io').listen(server);
conversations = {};
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.sendfile('/');
});
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
socket.on('send message', function (data) {
var conversation_id = data.conversation_id;
if (conversation_id in conversations) {
console.log (conversation_id + ' is already in the conversations object');
// emit the message [data.message] to all connected users in the conversation
} else {
socket.conversation_id = data;
conversations[socket.conversation_id] = socket;
conversations[conversation_id] = data.conversation_id;
console.log ('adding ' + conversation_id + ' to conversations.');
// emit the message [data.message] to all connected users in the conversation
}
})
});
server.listen(8080);
Solution 1:
You have to create a room with conversation_id
and make users to subscribe to that room, so that you can emit a private message to that room it by,
client
var socket = io.connect('http://ip:port');
socket.emit('subscribe', conversation_id);
socket.emit('send message', {
room: conversation_id,
message: "Some message"
});
socket.on('conversation private post', function(data) {
//display data.message
});
Server
socket.on('subscribe', function(room) {
console.log('joining room', room);
socket.join(room);
});
socket.on('send message', function(data) {
console.log('sending room post', data.room);
socket.broadcast.to(data.room).emit('conversation private post', {
message: data.message
});
});
Here is the docs and example for creating a room, subscribing to the room and Emit message to a room:
- Socket.io Rooms
- Socket.IO subscribe to multiple channels
- Socket.io rooms difference between broadcast.to and sockets.in
Solution 2:
SURE: Simply,
This is what you need :
io.to(socket.id).emit("event", data);
whenever a user joined to the server,socket details will be generated including ID.This is the ID really helps to send a message to particular people.
first we need to store all the socket.ids in array,
var people={};
people[name] = socket.id;
here name is the reciever name. Example:
people["ccccc"]=2387423cjhgfwerwer23;
So, now we can get that socket.id with the reciever name whenever we are sending message:
for this we need to know the recievername.You need to emit reciever name to the server.
final thing is:
socket.on('chat message', function(data){
io.to(people[data.reciever]).emit('chat message', data.msg);
});
Hope this works well for you.!!Good Luck