Emit socket event from server?

PitaJ

I saw in another post that @julian recommended doing something like the following:

websockets.server.sockets.in('user/' + uid).emit('event:alert', {
  title: 'test',
  message: 'something'
  ...
});

What should I require to get websockets?

Something like module.parent.require("websockets")?

julian

Yes, from a plugin, you can require the socket.io object thusly:

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

Edit: YMMV, I wrote that up blindly, but I think that's the way.

PitaJ

@julian Wait, but is it './socket.io' or just 'socket.io'. There is no socket.io.js file in the src directory.

julian

@pitaj There is a folder called socket.io, so if you require it, it assumes ./socket.io/index.js

PitaJ

Oh, okay. I though node required a package.json for a folder to be required or recognized as a module.

PitaJ

@julian In that case, if I'm using both ./socket.io and ./socket.io/plugins, do I need to manually require plugins, or can I refer to it via websocket.plugins or something?

BTW, sorry for the pings.

julian

@pitaj Offhand, I believe you'll have to require them separately, as the plugins is a namespace (that the socket.io server works with), and I don't believe it is exposed in the main file, though I could be wrong.

No need to apologise