I seem to have an issue with SignalR's JS Client Hub.
The problem is that the 'on' handler does not seem to work - it generates no error but doesn't receive any signals sent by the server. The code below shows an extract where I call the server (using the invoke) which works fine - then on the server I call back to acceptHubData which should be picked up on the client but isn't.
My objective is when navigating to pages that each page will open a connection to a specific hub and releases this connection when the user moves to another page!!
EDIT: using the following code snippet works but I wonder why the code further below using the 'on' event doesn't work!
var superHub = $.connection.mySuperHub;
superHub.client.acceptHubData = function (data) {
$('<li>hello there' + data + '</li>').prependTo($('#ul1'))
}
$.connection.hub.start().done(function () {
$('<li>done phase 1</li>').prependTo($('#ul1'))
});
Any help would be much appreciated!
This is the client code (in js)
$(document).ready(function () {
var myHub;
try {
var connection = $.hubConnection();
connection.start().done(function () {
myHub = connection.createHubProxy("mySuperHub");
myHub.on('acceptHubData', function (data) {
alert(data); // THIS IS NOT CALLED!
});
myHub.invoke('AcceptSignal', "hello from the client2");
});
}
catch (e) {
alert(e.message);
}
});
This is the Server code:
[HubName("mySuperHub")]
public class MyHub : Hub
{
private readonly HubEngine _hubEngine;
public MyHub() : this(HubEngine.Instance) { }
public MyHub(HubEngine hubEngine)
{
_hubEngine = hubEngine;
}
public void AcceptSignal(string msg)
{
Clients.Caller.acceptHubData("hi");
Clients.All.acceptHubData("hi");
}
}