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Hi alsonkemp,

We're working on a feature with this functionality that will be released soon. Thanks!

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Hi @alsonkemp,

I've just built this feature.

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use it as follows:

 nowjs.getClient("some-client-id", function(){
      this.now.whatever():
      // this.user.clientId == "some-client-id" // true
 });

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Can someone write a simple example to send a message to a client id?

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nowjs.getClient(clientId, function(){

this.now.someFunction();

});

Eric

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:07 PM, amitda <
[email protected]>wrote:

Can someone write a simple example to send a message to a client id?

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Thanks Eric.

Is there a way of integrating this into multi-room chat example?

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Yep it can definitely be integrated but the multi-room chat example does not have any of the user interface necessary to integrate it.

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I am working on it now... if I am successful, I will upload it here

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Great to hear! Let me know if you need further help.

Eric

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:23 PM, amitda <
[email protected]>wrote:

I am working on it now... if I am successful, I will upload it here

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Hello,

Is there an error callback function on now.getClient in case the socket is closed or does not exist ?

Thanks a lot,
Luc

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Is there a best practice on knowing which clientId to use with getClient? Should we use a userID that already exists? Pull the clientID from the socket.io (and if so, any examples how best to)?

I'm trying to implement a multi-room chat session, where users can join and leave rooms, but still missing exactly how to tell a group that a user should be added or removed from a room.

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Hi Jay,

The best way is to use the this.user.clientId which is available whenever
this.now and this.user are available.

One way to do what you describe i using the join event

mygroup.on('join', function(){

mygroup.now.notify(this.user.clientId + ' has joined');

// this.user.clientId can also be stored for use in nowjs.getClient later

});

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jay Crossler <
[email protected]>wrote:

Is there a best practice on knowing which clientId to use with getClient?
Should we use a userID that already exists? Pull the clientID from the
socket.io (and if so, any examples how best to)?

I'm trying to implement a multi-room chat session, where users can join and
leave rooms, but still missing exactly how to tell a group that a user
should be added or removed from a room.

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510-691-3951
EECS Student at UC Berkeley
http://ericzhang.com

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Awesome, that helped alot. I was googling it but not quite understanding until you gave me that hint. I've now got groups working across all my rooms, with the group being joined by the client, but verified that they have membership by the server and then aligned to the group._id from the database. Yay!

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