Looks like I need to read, embrace and commit to memory
http://www.danielbaulig.de/socket-ioexpress/ :)
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Thanks, Phil
----- Original Message -----
> Hello,
> working my way through my first app and now attempting to emit and
> event back to the connected client through socket.io. On the server
> side I have the following to capture the connecting clients IP
> address into an array (later I will create a unique ID on the client
> side as-well in-case they have two browser sessions open):
> var connections = {};
> io.sockets.on('connection', function(socket) {
> var client = socket.handshake.address;
> connections[client] = socket;
> logger('Connection from ' + client.address);
> socket.on('disconnect', function() {
> logger('Disconnection from ' + client.address);
> });
> });
> The connected client then performs an action, in this case attempts a
> file upload, for which I need to send a progress status so I tried
> the following:
> app.post('/upload', function(request, response) {
> var ipAddress = request.connection.remoteAddress;
> logger('URL request came from: ' + ipAddress);
> var form = new formidable.IncomingForm(),
> files = [],
> fields = [];
> form.uploadDir = __dirname + '/uploads';
> logger('Processing form');
> form
> .on('progress', function(bytesReceived, bytesExpected) {
> var progress = (bytesReceived / bytesExpected * 100).toFixed(2);
> var MB = (bytesExpected / 1024 / 1024).toFixed(1);
> logger('Uploading ' + MB + 'MB (' + progress + '%)');
> connections[ipAddress].emit('status', { completed: progress });
> })
> .....
> when I run it through I receive the error "TypeError: Cannot call
> method 'emit' of undefined" when I upload a file. My understanding
> was that the connections array would be holding the socket object
> and that is what I would emit against ?
> All help gratefully received and appreciated.
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> Thanks, Phil
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