Possibility to reconnect with a different URL

[rmnblm]

I am building an app where it is possible to change the Socket URL at runtime. A few ViewControllers have registered callbacks on different socket events. The problem here is obvious: When I'm creating a new SocketIOClient instance, the SocketEventHandler 'handlers' in SocketIOClient.swift is empty and all my callbacks are gone. There should be the possibility to reconnect to a different URL while preserving all handlers. Am I the only one who's in need for this or is there already a good workaround? 🙈

There could be two different solutions I could think of

• Offer a method called connect(newSocketURL: URL) which sets the socketURL instance variable and call addEngine().connect() to start a new engine with the new URL
• Offer a method to transfer the current [SocketEventHandler] array called handlers from one socket to another to preserve these handlers

[nuclearace]

Or you could have a method that just adds your handlers for a socket. I don't like the idea of reusing sockets, I didn't originally build it to do that, it was tacked on later, I don't think it's that great.

func addHandlersForSocket(socket: SocketIOClient)

[rmnblm]

Reusing sockets isn't that great, you're right, but hopefully you understand the problem I'm facing here. I don't really understand your suggestion, could you provide me some implementation details on how you'd do it? ☺️

[LeonardoRick]

Hi, I'm willing to reconnect to a different url too from my client. rebuild all definition of the handlers will be a huge cost to me. Is there a way to do that nowadays?