connectionID about websocket-node HOT 5 CLOSED

WebSocket-Node doesn't have connection IDs, nor does it need them for anything. If you wish to use a connection ID, you may assign one when you accept each connection:

var connectionIdCounter = 0;
server.on('connection', function(connection) {
   connection.id = connectionIdCounter++;
});

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Thanks. I might be missing something though. Currently I am using the other server I mentioned and am storing data to a redis server using the key of connectionid. Then when they disconnect, Or we kill node, I can clear that info based on connectionid.

Will your solution work for this? Meaning, once I set connectionid via your method, is it the same?

Thanks.
Joe

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With WebSocket-Node, you are responsible for your own mechanism of assigning connection IDs, since the library itself has no use for them. If you need that feature you will need to figure out what implementation will work for you.

The example I provided just uses simple incrementing integers for the ID. That identifier will be unique for that connection on that server, but if you have multiple servers all communicating together using Redis PubSub or similar, you will want to use an ID that is guaranteed to be more unique.

In that case, I would look into using GUIDs instead, as they're guaranteed to be globally unique.

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Got it. Thanks. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for your help.

Joe

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No problem, good luck!

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