feat: broadcast to only selected client

[Anas35]

Description

Are there a way to group a selected client and broadcast only within that group ? Client that are not in the group should no listen to the message.

socket.io JS packages uses join() and to() to broadcast within a group.

[felangel]

To broadcast to a specific client you can just add the message to the specific client’s sink. Regarding groups, that is something that you would have to implement currently.

[Anas35]

thanks! I implemented the groups by storing the client's sink to its corresponding group id's in a map. May be, Groups feature is more suitable for broadcast_bloc?

[felangel]

thanks! I implemented the groups by storing the client's sink to its corresponding group id's in a map. May be, Groups feature is more suitable for broadcast_bloc?

No problem!
Yup, I think it would be great to move this conversation to the broadcast_bloc repository since it more directly pertains to that package, thanks!

[Anas35]

Sure, Can you transfer this issue to the broadcast_bloc repository or do we have to create a new issue in that repository?

[felangel]

Unfortunately, I can't transfer the issue because the broadcast_bloc repository isn't part of the same GitHub organization.

[Anas35]

closing on felangel/broadcast_bloc#2

[aytunch]

To broadcast to a specific client you can just add the message to the specific client’s sink. Regarding groups, that is something that you would have to implement currently.

@felangel how do we add a message to a specific client's sink? Do we have a pointer to each connected client? Which variable holds this info? thanks

[felangel]

@aytunch each time a new client connects you get a channel object which corresponds to the client and allows you to send/received messages with that specific client. Hope that helps 👍