I am storing username/SocketID pairs in redis store for my socket.io chat application.
When the user disconnects i need to remove the username/socketID pair from the redis store. I have seen how to get the value from a key but never a key from a value. Is it possible? or either way how can i delete the key/value pair from just the value. Here's my code
For adding to store on connect
socket.on('username', function (username) {
client.set(username, socket.id, function (err) {
console.log(username + ":" + socket.id);
});
});
For disconnect, the client wont know when the disconnect will happen, might happen due to loss of internet connectivity but when the socket disconnects it always hits the "disconnect" event. In this event i need to delete the username/socketID pair.
socket.on('disconnect', function () {
// dont know the username??
client.del(username, socket.id, function (err) {
if (err)
console.log(err);
else {
socket.disconnect();
console.log(socket.id + " DISCONNECTED");
}
});
});