That will help me in the right direction, but unfortunately I'm not entirely sure how to do this as documentation for LuaSocket isn't exactly robust. If a user connects to the server, how do I keep track of who is who? Where is their "user id" if it exists already?
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Fabio Mascarenhas <mascaren...@acm.org> wrote: > Well, you will need to keep a map of users to their connections > (sockets) if you want to write a chat server (as well as sets of users > for each group). If you need to send a message to all users belonging > to a specific group you do something like this: > > for _, user_id in ipairs(groups[group_id]) do > sockets[user_id]:send(msg) > end > > This is really indepedent of Copas, Copas will just guarantee that if > one of those sends blocks the other parts server will continue working > instead of blocking too. _______________________________________________ Kepler-Project mailing list Kepler-Project@lists.luaforge.net http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kepler-project http://www.keplerproject.org/
