Sails.js to client using sails.sockets.join and sa

Question

I'm attempting to create a one to one chat using Sails.js and sails.io.js on the client side.

I can get the io.socket.get and io.socket.post to work, but I haven't been able to receive anything from either sails.sockets.broadcast or Model.publish as instructed here:

Personalized chat using Sails.js

or here

Sails.js + socket.io: Sending messages from server to clients

Server Side Code:

UserController.js

module.exports = {
    listen: function(req, res) {
        console.log("about to join " + userId);
        sails.sockets.join(req.socket, req.param('userId'));
    }
};

From: http://beta.sailsjs.org/#/documentation/reference/sails.sockets/sails.sockets.join.html

MessageController.js

// Some code to get userId and message model here

console.log("about to broadcast on " + userId);
sails.sockets.broadcast(userId, 'conversation_message', message); 

// Did not JSONify the message model, not sure if I need to?

From: http://beta.sailsjs.org/#/documentation/reference/sails.sockets/sails.sockets.broadcast.html

Client Side Code:

// Some code to get userId...

io.socket.get('/user/listen', {
    userId: userId
}, function() {
    io.socket.on('conversation_message', function(message) {
        console.log("we have a message");
    });
});

When I hit the route that triggers the broadcast with userId, nothing is sent to this client code to log we have a message. Any ideas?

I have tried the Model.subscribe / Model.publish methods as well with no luck--same issue.

Update: The listen function doesn't actually return -- as someone suggested in a comment that they later deleted. Adding res.send(200); to the end of the listen function was enough to make it work.

If that person would add their comment again as an answer I'll accept it.

Answer 1

(That was me. I thought my comment might of been not worthwhile because i reread your post and you said you had the get working so I thought I was wrong. My comment was something to the effect below, but I don't remember verbatim)

Have you checked to make sure the you are actually getting a response on the client-side listen? What log statements are you actually getting throughout your code? Put a console.log('get user listen') or something inside of the Client-side socket.get.