I'm trying out node.js and socket.io. I wan't to use to remove a ping function I have to get updates from my server. Here is an example code of what I'm doing:
var app = require('http').createServer(),
io = require('socket.io').listen(app),
cp = require('child_process');
app.listen(8080);
//I check a global value for all the connected users from the php command line
var t = setInterval(function(){
cp.exec('/usr/bin/php /Users/crear/Projects/MandaFree/symfony api:getRemainingMessages',
function(err, stdout){
if (err) {
io.sockets.emit('error', 'An error ocurred while running child process.');
} else {
io.sockets.emit('change', stdout);
}
console.log('Remaining messages: ' + stdout);
});
}, 3000);
var remaining = io.of('/getRemainingMessages')
.on('connection', function(socket){
socket.on('disconnect', function(){});
});
The Issue here, is that when I call io.sockets.emit() the debug console tells me it is doing something, but it looks like it is not getting to the clients. Because they are doing nothing.
I use to have one interval for every connected client, and when I used socket.emit() it did worked. But it is not the optimal solution.
UPDATE: Here is my client side code.
var remaining = io.connect('http://127.0.0.1:8080/getRemainingMessages');
remaining.on('change', function(data){
console.log('Remaining messages: ' + data );
$('#count').html(data);
});
remaining.on('error', function(error){
console.log(error);
});