Intercept/store chat message on server (latest alpha)?

[Fabian Bernhard]

Dear group,

I am using the latest alpha branch. Is there a way to intercept chat messages sent through the web socket on the server? I would like to store the chat history for a given room in a database. 

Thank you!

Fabian

[Eric Davies]

Hi Fabian,

I would the expect the answer is yes, but you may have to wait a week for an answer because Rod's the server man and he's getting ready to give some talks at the WebRTC expo in Santa Clara 19-2 (read, he's crazy busy trying to get ready [the curse of the being the most competent person in the room is that you do all the packing]) However, if you happen to be at the WebRTC expo, you can ask him in person.

Eric.

[Rod Apeldoorn]

My apologies for the late reply...

My biggest problem was I wasn't happy with the 0.10.2 method of calling the default listener, so in 0.10.3 I added a new emitDefault function to the events object. I also added some better documentation for events.

• https://github.com/priologic/easyrtc/blob/alpha/docs/easyrtc_server_events.md
  
• http://rawgithub.com/priologic/easyrtc/alpha/docs/server_html_docs/module-easyrtc_default_event_listeners-eventListener.html
  

Here's some code which takes over the 'easyrtcMsg' event listener, logs messages, then returns control back to the default listener.

var easyrtcServer = easyrtc.listen(httpApp, socketServer);

// Our new custom listener

var onEasyrtcMsg = function(connectionObj, msg, socketCallback, next){

    // Return any connections not to IM demo to the default listener.

    if (connectionObj.getAppName() != "easyrtc.instantMessaging") {

        easyrtc.events.emitDefault("easyrtcMsg", connectionObj, msg, socketCallback, next);

        return;

    }

    

    console.log("Received a message which we can now log:", msg);

    // Reverting control back to default listener.

    easyrtc.events.emitDefault("easyrtcMsg", connectionObj, msg, socketCallback, next);

};

// Set our listener to take over for 'easyrtcMsg' events.

easyrtc.events.on("easyrtcMsg", onEasyrtcMsg);

- Rod Apeldoorn, Priologic Software

[Fabian Bernhard]

Great, thanks a lot!