Server socket id doesn't match client's socket id

[stgogm]

For some reason, after upgrading to 1.4.4, the sockets on the server return the socket.id property as /#BA0yIQhFb5R55OnvAAAC but in the client as BA0yIQhFb5R55OnvAAAC.

This inconsistency has broken one of my apps. Am I doing something wrong?

[nkzawa]

That was changed on 1.4.0. Maybe we should change socket.id on client to the same format with server. cc @rauchg

You can use socket.client.id on server for now, which would be matched with client's socket.id.

[stgogm]

Thanks, but I think this behavior breaks functionality and if you installed socket.io via npm and it's defined as "^1.3.6", for example, it'll definitively break your app if you rely on socket.id to achieve some functionality.

One more thing, if now socket.id is not equal to socket.client.id that means that when you want to emit a message to a specific socket it'll be sent to both socket.id and socket.client.id?

[smcardle]

I also have this issue.

The server side pre-pends the default namespace but the client does not.
This has caused me SERIOUS issues with our app after an upgrade. We missed 1.4.0 and went straight to 1.4.4.
It's good to know that socket.client.id on the server side is the same as the client side id.

However, a fix for this would be good....

I also noticed a few other issues with this upgrade..

1. Counting the number of sockets in a room
   My original code was a follows :

           var numClients = 0;
           var clients = sio.sockets.adapter.rooms["test"];
           if(clients)  {
               numClients = Object.keys(clients).length;
           }
   

   i.e. sio.sockets.adapter.rooms[data.room] returned an array containing the socket ids of the sockets that had joined the "test" room

After this upgrade sio.sockets.adapter.rooms["test"] now returns a Room object that contains an array called sockets that contains the socket ids instead, requiring a change to the code as follows

            var numClients = 0;
            var room = sio.sockets.adapter.rooms["test"];
            if(room)  {
                numClients = Object.keys(room.sockets).length;
            }

1. socket.io-redis DOES NOT WORK with this version as broadcasting and emitting events to clients in a room does not result in any of those clients receiving a message.
   However, emitting to the self i.e. socket.emit(...) does work.

Any chance these issues will be resolved soon ???

Steve

[LordMajestros]

@smcardle Socket.io-redis works for me but I had to update to 1.0.0 check your version.

[stgogm]

Although this changes are improvements they shouldn't be considered minor as they break a lot of functionality. Please consider that the node environment, specially npm, always relies on semver and this changes doesn't respect that at all.

[ilanbiala]

Hey guys, how is this going to be fixed? @rauchg any thoughts?

[smcardle]

OK so I finally got back to testing a few things and I am pretty pissed that the changes in this version are HUGE and should have really been released as version 2.x.x

As @LordMajestros pointed out socket.io-redis 1.0.0 does work with this version so that at least is something.

The rest of the changes including changes to the old and new meanings or broadcast as well the introduction of the Room object verses the sockets hash for a room caused me many many issues until all affected functionality was eventually converted

Steve

[nkzawa]

@ilanbiala We are going to change socket.id on client to the same format with server, which should solve the problem.