How to observe for Meteor connection about swiftddp HOT 4 CLOSED

When you pass a callback to the connection method that callback is executed after the server sends a successful connection message. That's how you know when it's connected.

Disconnection is trickier. There is no DDP message for 'disconnect'. Rather, the client and server may exchange pings to make sure that one another are still there. If too long an interval passes without receiving a ping response, the server will close the connection.

If the connection closes, SwiftDDP automatically tries reestablish the connection. This is analogous to the way DDP works in the browser (MeteorJS). The connection is designed to happen in the background, independent of the application code, and to be managed by the server.

So, for the initial connection, use the callback. As for disconnection, it should not happen unless your server closes the connection because it can no longer reach your client.

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Thank you for the quick reply. However, what I need in my application is to deactivate users' interactions when meteor is disconnected and reactivate when it's reconnected. Therefore, the call back function after calling "connect" is only useful if I connect to meteor manually, but I need to handle the auto-reconnect as well.

Is there a way to listen to onConnect and onDisconnect?

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No.

Consider what happens when you use Meteor in the browser. You, as the developer, do not control the connection. It happens automatically in the background. You control access to the app in other ways, via authentication, authorization, subscriptions etc. SwiftDDP mimics this approach, with one exception, which is that you have to manually initiate the initial connection.

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Closing this... please reopen or open a new issue of this isn't clear.

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