Removing an event listener on the client

[Jeff Zimmerlin]

What's the proper way to clear a Socket.IO event listener on the
client?

I used...

//Connect
Socket=io.connect(...);

//Bind
Socket.on("forceUpdate", function(){
...
});

//Unbind
Socket.$events.forceUpdate=null;

...but I don't know if that adheres to best practices. Thoughts?

Thanks so much!

[Arnout Kazemier]

Socket.IO uses event emitters for events so you can just use: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.10/api/events.html#emitter.removeListener to remove listeners

[Jeff Zimmerlin]

I'm talking about removing event listeners on the client, not the
server.

On Jul 28, 12:21 am, Arnout Kazemier <i...@3rd-eden.com> wrote:
> Socket.IO uses event emitters for events so you can just use:http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.10/api/events.html#emitter.removeListenerto remove listeners

[Jeff Zimmerlin]

Anybody know?

On Jul 28, 8:48 am, Jeff Zimmerlin <jeffzimmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Arnout Kazemier]

@Jeff

We also ported the EventEmitter to the browser, so it uses the same API there.
See https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io-client/blob/master/lib/events.js for the code

[Jeff Zimmerlin]

@Arnout

Ah I see. Thank you!

On Aug 1, 12:00 am, Arnout Kazemier <i...@3rd-eden.com> wrote:
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> Seehttps://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io-client/blob/master/lib/events.jsfor the code

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> > On Jul 28, 8:48 am, Jeff Zimmerlin <jeffzimmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm talking about removing event listeners on the client, not the
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> >> On Jul 28, 12:21 am, Arnout Kazemier <i...@3rd-eden.com> wrote:
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> >>> Socket.IO uses event emitters for events so you can just use:http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.10/api/events.html#emitter.removeListener...listeners

[Brian Carr]

I'm using socket.io 0.7.7 and removeListener() on a client-side socket instance doesn't appear to be working for me.  The following adds a listener which responds properly to events emitted from the server, as expected;

socket.addListener('test', function(data) { 

  console.dir(data); 

}); 

However any attempt to remove the listener doesn't appear to work;

socket.removeListener('test', function(data) { 

  console.dir(data);

});

It doesn't produce an error and the client will continue to respond (according to the listener callback) to server-side events of the same name.  Am I using it incorrectly?

[Arnout Kazemier]

Make sure you the function that you added like this:

function test (data){
console.dir(data);
}

// add
socket.on('test', test);

// remove
socket.removeListener('test', test);

[Brian Carr]

Excellent, thanks!