Socket.io transports for Android/iOS

[Hurreman]

Is there a way to setup Socket.IO from a controller? I tried req.socket.set('transports' [...]) but without luck, and can't find anything in the wiki/docs.

Has anyone gotten mobile support for Socket.IO to work?

[mikermcneil]

Hey Hurreman, thanks for bringing this up. The best thing to do is to call io.set('transports', [ /* ... */ ]); from your bootstrap function (config/bootstrap.js)

https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO/wiki/Configuring-Socket.IO#understanding-the-configure-method

That said, this is something that I'd like to see pulled into the core as a built-in configuration, just like we've done with all the Express options.

Hopefully, that helps for now. I'd love to see an example when you get this up and running!

[Hurreman]

Hey Mike, I've given this a go but from what I can tell, io hasn't yet been declared when the bootstrap is called, resulting in an "io is not defined" exception. Am I missing something?

[mikermcneil]

Nope you're right on target-- it's tricky because we want the bootstrap to fire before the server starts, so you can get all your app setup done first, but then we don't have io yet. I'll add a transports config for now

[mikermcneil]

OK- I'm pushing support for sails.config.io.transports in a moment to master. You can use any of the existing config files, or create config/io.js to look like the following:

module.exports.io = {
  transports: [
    'websocket'
  , 'flashsocket'
  , 'htmlfile'
  , 'xhr-polling'
  , 'jsonp-polling'
  ]
};

[mikermcneil]

Closed by 6d63c12

For now, to get it, you can install using:

npm install sails@git://github.com/balderdashy/sails.git#6d63c129c6fd2d5e0691c5231c0682594d11708f

[mikermcneil]

PS- thanks for reminding me about this!