+1 for displaying "Connection has been lost" Additionally things are simplier in 3.0: - Room enter connects to rtmp://xyz/openmeetings/$roomId (use case 1) - Room leave just removes div with embedded flash from the DOM and displays main interface (use case 2)
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:55 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Artyom, > > Quote: *When a user looses his connection he > get 3 attempts to reconnect. * > => Which is a funny co-incident. It should not do that, the 3 times try are > only for when you do your initial set up. It does try 3 times rtmp and then > switches to rtmpt. > > *If we don't, I offer to show user an error message without reconnection > attempts because unexpected leaving the room looks as a bug.* > =>I agree. It should not even try a single time. There should be just an > error message "Your lost the connection, please reload the application". > That would be the correct behaviour. Everything else is just confusing, > cause at the moment it looks like it does some "auto-reconnect". But there > is no such feature. > The only thing to make sure is that room-leave and room(-re)-entering still > works correctly: > - Room enter disconnects from rtmp://xyz/openmeetings/hibernate to > rtmp://xyz/openmeetings/$roomId (use case 1) > - Room leave disconnects from rtmp://xyz/openmeetings/$roomId to > rtmp://xyz/openmeetings/hibernate (use case 2) > - If a user has rtmpt (you can test that by chaning the rtmp port to some > rubbish in the config.xml and clear your cache), then room enter and leaver > should still work the same _but_ using rtmpt instead of rtmp all the time. > (use case 3 [rtmpt-enter] and 4 [rtmpt-leave]) > > You can verify if everything works correctly if you goto Administration > > Connections. If the re-connect on rooms leave is correct, then exiting and > re-entering a room with a user in another session will just increment the > ID of the roomClient by : > Exiting the room +1, > Renering the room +2 (one time SWF8 rtmp connection +1, one time SWF11 > rtmp-connection +1) > If you just close your browser it does not increment the id by +1, just > closing your browser will just disconnect and send appropriate messages to > everybody. > > Administration > Connections is quite handy for development purpsose. On > click of an entry you can see every session attribute in the RoomClient. > You currently always see 2 entries per user as soon as he is in the > conference room. Every user has two separated rtmp connections, one for the > SWF8 legacy code and one for the "new" SWF11 container. SWF11 does handle > all the Audio/Video stuff. SWF11 does only connect when you really need > Audio/Video. So only in the conference room and maybe in the recording > section. > > Maybe part of this information is redundant for you Artyom, however if you > have any further questions please let me know. > > Thanks, > Sebastian > > > 2013/6/7 Artyom Horuzhenko <[email protected]> > > > Sebastian, let me explain our trouble. When a user looses his connection > he > > get 3 attempts to reconnect. If all of the attempts are failed, the user > > sees an error message, otherwise - the user reconnects to dashboard. We > are > > discussing idea about reconnecting to room again instead of dashboard. I > > agree with you that whiteboard, userlist etc should be reloaded, but I > want > > to know if we really need restoring connection. If we don't, I offer to > > show user an error message without reconnection attempts because > unexpected > > leaving the room looks as a bug. > > 07.06.2013 13:28 пользователь "[email protected]" < > > [email protected]> > > написал: > > > > > > Sorry I get lost in that kind of discussion. > > > > > > Artyom started a vote, quote: > > > > > > *I think in this case the functionality like this is useless, > > > it should be removed at all or improved to allow users reconnect > without > > > leaving the room. I offer to vote about this thing: > > > > > > +1 fix leaving rooms > > > 0 don't change anything > > > -1 remove reconnection functionality at all* > > > > > > So what does +1 mean *fix leaving the room* ... what has that to do > with > > > what you say Alexei ?! > > > In fact I don't think that there is anything to fix with that > reconnect. > > > > > > And whatever Artyom proposed has nothing todo with fixing an user that > > lost > > > the connection. > > > > > > About the *reconnect when user lost connection* feature: > > > I think in another thread I tried to explain: When the connection is > > lost, > > > simply reconnecting the rtmp-connection has _no_ meaning, as you don't > > know > > > how long the user was away. You need to re-sync the whiteboard, the > > videos > > > list, the list of participants and the list of current screensharing > > > sessions. So in fact you can simply clean everything and re-login the > > user. > > > The same the other way round, everybody that was in the room, will have > > to > > > re-initialize the user that was lost. Simply connecting the > > rtmp-connection > > > will just make the situation worse as it may look like *working* but in > > > fact nothing really *works*. > > > > > > So I am sorry but from my point of view you mix things together that > have > > > nothing todo with each other: > > > Reconnecting while leaving the room VS connection lost. > > > > > > Sebastian > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/6/7 Alexei Fedotov <[email protected]> > > > > > > > I used the following arguments: > > > > > > > > 1. Skype tries to re-connect when the connection is lost (though it > > > > works awfully). Why should not we? > > > > 2. When one re-connects (doesn't matter how, maybe after the flash > > > > crash), she should reappear in the place where she was before the > > > > break. This simplifies reestablishing connection. I think this is > > > > useful behavior. > > > > > > > > Combining two of these arguments we get "room reconnect" feature > which > > > > can potentially improve the user experience. > > > > > > > > This is close to the second variant, which is called the cluster > > > > re-connect. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, > > > > Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, > > > > http://dataved.ru/ > > > > +7 916 562 8095 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, [email protected] > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hallo Artyom, > > > > > > > > > > *We know that reconnection works somehow* > > > > > > > > > > Just to be _very_ clear. There is no such feature! > > > > > > > > > > There is a co-incident that may _look like_ a reconnect. > > > > > > > > > > The *feature* is that the flash clients does try to connect 3 times > > to > > > > the > > > > > rtmpconnection. > > > > > This initial connection try out is _never_ cleared. So if your > > > > connections > > > > > gets lost (and you did not have initially the bad luck of using > your > > 3 > > > > > tries), the rtmp connection does reconnect. > > > > > However this is just a funny co-incident. This was never the intend > > to > > > > > re-connect the rtmp connection when it gets lost while the user is > > > > already > > > > > in the meeting. > > > > > > > > > > So what other types of *reconnect* are you refering to? > > > > > There is one reconnect when the user leaves the room, that is when > he > > > > > switches the rtmp connection URL from: > > > > > rtmp://host:port/openmeetings/$roomId > > > > > to > > > > > rtmp://host:port/openmeetings/hibernate (default channel) > > > > > > > > > > The same *re-connect* happens when he enters the room. He has to > > switch > > > > > from the default/global scope to the room scope. > > > > > > > > > > There is no option to remove this functionality, if the user does > not > > > > > change the rtmp-connection he can never receive any messages and > > connect > > > > to > > > > > the streams of the conference room. > > > > > This is the concept of streaming servers: > > > > > If you want to connect to a particular room and receive update > > > > > notifications of events of that room => Connect/Subscribe to that > > URL! > > > > > Connecting/Subscribing to that URL cannot happen without a > reconnect > > when > > > > > you enter or leave the room. > > > > > > > > > > Btw: THis functionality is actually the basis for any kind of > > clustering > > > > as > > > > > the point where somebody enters and leaves the room is when it gets > > > > > re-directed to another server. So without that reconnect, there is > no > > > > > clustering. > > > > > > > > > > So those are the different version of "reconnect" that currently > > exist. > > > > > > > > > > Can you please clarify what exactly you meant with *reconnecting*? > > What > > > > > kind of reconnecting? > > > > > And did you see the impact of your proposal? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Sebastian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/6/7 Artyom Horuzhenko <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > >> Hello collegues, > > > > >> > > > > >> I want to discuss reconnection again and decide what should we do > > with > > > > it. > > > > >> We know that reconnection works somehow: users leave the room > after > > > > >> reconnection. I think in this case the functionality like this is > > > > useless, > > > > >> it should be removed at all or improved to allow users reconnect > > without > > > > >> leaving the room. I offer to vote about this thing: > > > > >> > > > > >> +1 fix leaving rooms > > > > >> 0 don't change anything > > > > >> -1 remove reconnection functionality at all > > > > >> > > > > >> I made some experiments and suppose that reconnection can be fixed > > > > without > > > > >> global changes in code, but requires deep testing. Anyway, my vote > > is > > > > +1. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Sebastian Wagner > > > > > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > > > > > http://www.webbase-design.de > > > > > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Sebastian Wagner > > > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > > > http://www.webbase-design.de > > > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > > > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > Sebastian Wagner > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > http://www.webbase-design.de > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > [email protected] > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
