Question

I’m not sure exactly how to understand the usage of message in socket.io. I’m trying to send message from the client to server then the server reply to the client (basic nah?).

This is the server code:

var fs = require('fs');
var hskey = fs.readFileSync('ssl.key');
var hscert = fs.readFileSync('ssl.crt');

var options = {
    key: hskey,
    cert: hscert
};

var app = require('https').createServer(options);
var io = require('/usr/local/lib/node_modules/socket.io').listen(app);

app.listen(8181);

io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
  socket.emit('serverMessage', 'Hello world!');
  io.sockets.emit('serverMessage', 'A user connected');

  io.sockets.on('clientMessage', function (socket) {
    socket.emit('serverMessage', 'Gotamessage bitch!');
    console.log('I received a message by ', from, ' saying ', msg);
  });


    socket.on('disconnect', function () {
    io.sockets.emit('serverMessage', 'A user disconnected');
  });
});

This is the client code:

<script>

        var socket;
        var firstconnect = true;

        function connect() {
          if(firstconnect) {
            socket = io.connect('https://secure.connectednodes.com:8181');

            socket.on('serverMessage', function(data){ message(data); });
            socket.on('connect', function(){ status_update("Connected to Server"); });
            socket.on('disconnect', function(){ status_update("Disconnected from Server"); });
            socket.on('reconnect', function(){ status_update("Reconnected to Server"); });
            socket.on('reconnecting', function( nextRetry ){ status_update("Reconnecting in " 
              + nextRetry + " seconds"); });
            socket.on('reconnect_failed', function(){ message("Reconnect Failed"); });

            firstconnect = false;
          }
          else {
            socket.socket.reconnect();
          }
        }

        function disconnect() {
          socket.disconnect();
        }

        function message(data) {
          document.getElementById('message').innerHTML += "<br>" + "Server says: " + data;
        }

        function status_update(txt){
          document.getElementById('status').innerHTML = txt;
        }

        function esc(msg){
          return msg.replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
        }

        function send() {
          socket.emit('clientMessage', 'Yo server');  
        };        

     </script>

I managed to get connection and deconnection working but I’m unable to get the io.sockets.on(‘clientMessage’ to work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I think you must use socket.on not io.sockets.on

Server side

socket.on('clientMessage', function (data, from) {
   socket.emit('serverMessage', 'Got a message!');
   console.log('I received a message by ', from, ' saying ', msg);
});

Client side

function send() {
   socket.emit('clientMessage', 'Yo server', 'USER001');  
}; 

try it