Handling socket event sent from theme (on client) inside plugin (on server)

vatsal

I have created a custom theme which allows users to interact with topics in more than default ways, essentially it is rating system for topics. I have successfully added a new hash field to topics on "topic.save".

My theme has extra buttons for custom rating, clicking on which through my theme.js I am sending socket emit to be handled on server side. But my plugin doesn't seems to be responding to those socket events. However, if I put same socket.on handler inside src/socket.io/index.js, it works.

I need to find a way to handle custom socket events emitted from my theme through my plugin. Otherwise I don't want to tangle with the core source of the software, which of course is not a wise decision.

julian

It's not recommended to add listeners to any other socket.io namespace besides plugins.js, since that one is purposefully empty and built for plugins to use.

If you add a new method there, e.g.:

var SocketPlugins = module.parent.require('./socket.io/plugins');

SocketPlugins.myPlugin = {};
SocketPlugins.myPlugin.myMethod = function(someObj) { ... };

Then that method will be invoked when you do this on the client side:

socket.emit('plugins.myPlugin.myMethod', someObj, callback);

vatsal

@julian great will try this now, thanks for quick reply!