Even though it is the same channel, when i call the create method
(let's say i hit refresh on my browser, and the channel is created at
page load) my Channel Api quota for created channels rises...

On Jul 27, 7:01 am, Moishe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Answers below:
>
> On Jul 26, 10:21 am, Ice13ill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 1. I know that after two hours, the given token for creating the
> > channel expires and onClose() and onError() are called. When this
> > happends, does the POST request to the path to disconnect servlet is
> > sent ?  (/_ah/channel/disconnected/)
>
> Yes, it will. It might not be at exactly the time of expiration but it
> will be within a couple of minutes. It's possible that if you request
> a new token and re-open the socket within that gap that the
> disconnected and then connected calls will be skipped.
>
> > 2. if i create a channel with the same clientID twice, will that be
> > considered a new channel (given token is different) or will the token
> > be the identical ? (and also the same channel)
>
> You will get a new token (every call to create a channel, even with
> the same client id, will result in a new token -- among other reasons,
> the token encodes the expiration time, so it will obviously change on
> every call). The channel will be the same, though; if you have two
> clients connected with tokens generated from the same client id, they
> will both receive messages sent to that client id. However no
> guarantees are made of support of multiple connected clients; if you
> open a new client, other clients connected via tokens generated with
> the same client id may be (probably will be) disconnected.
>
> > 3. What would be the best method for keeping track of a large number
> > of created channels ? (clients IDs for example)
>
> I use the datastore with a memcache layer on top in apps I've written.
> You could have eg. a table of user_ids (from the users API)
> representing "connected users".
>
> -Moishe

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