Socket-IO and Express/Connect

[seflless]

hi,

I've been trying to get Socket-IO to work with Express/Connect all day. Has anyone go this working?

I'm of course using the http://github.com/bnoguchi/Socket.IO-connect lib, which requires this patched version of Connect: http://github.com/bnoguchi/Connect/tree/serverAccessFromHandle. There must be an easier way. I'd like to benefit from both libs.

Thanks in advance for anyone who's got a handle on this.

[jwcooper]

This is the easiest way to use express and socket.io: http://github.com/robrighter/node-boilerplate
Follow the instructions, and you'll have a running base application with express and socket.io...it's pretty slick.

[tj]

hmm yeah you should not need a patch to Connect.. the mailing list has quite a few people that have used Socket.IO with Express so id try that

[shripadk]

use client.listener.server.viewHelpers and expose your session in your dynamicHelpers. That way you can access session data. Store that data in a array using client.sessionId as the index.
server.js:
app.dynamicHelpers({
current_user: function(req) {
return req.session.user;
}
});
var io = io.listen(server), buffer = [];
io.on('connection', function(client){
var session = client.listener.server.viewHelpers;
buffer[client.sessionId] = session.current_user.name;
.
.
.

You are good to go :) However, i just realized that i am not able to remove the element from the array on disconnection. Doing
buffer.splice(client.sessionId, 1) does not remove the element from the array. Thats strange coz it, AFAIK, has to work!!! It works for smaller indexes though. Say if you have,
var buffer = [];
buffer[1] = 2; buffer[2] = 3; buffer[3] = 4;
buffer.splice(2,1); //This will remove the element with index 2
However,
buffer[8732620431110263] = 5;
buffer.splice(8732620431110263, 1); //This does not remove the element with index 8732620431110263 !!!!! Why is that so?