Mark users as online or offline.

[ekryski]

Currently we need to hook into the socket to mark as user online when:

• They connect & authenticate

and offline when:

• When the socket disconnects
• When they logout
• When they haven't been authenticated or done anything for a while (ie. token expires maybe?)

Is there a way, when they authenticate, to get the socket id on which it has happened ? This way, we could have an array of socket id on which the user is currently connected (and if the array is empty, then the user isn't connected anywhere).

[eddyystop]

Marshall mentioned that feather-authenticate v1 now has auth.on('create', ...) and auth.on('remove', ...)?

[daffl]

It has app.on('login') and app.on('logout') (which emits some additional information like the connection and request/response object if available).

[subodhpareek18]

@daffl app.on('logout') seems to not be generating for rest provider. app.on('login') seems to be generating for both socket io and rest

[daffl]

For REST the user has to explicitly call app.logout() since there is no other way to tell. In Socket.io the logout event will also be sent on socket disconnection.

[boustanihani]

Could someone please paste the code needed to hack into socket.io for listing all user connections?

[daffl]

The best (and not so hacky) way to get all connections is to combine all event channels and list those connections:

app.channel(app.channels).connections.forEach(connection => {});