Cheetah: Keeping track of multiple connected clients

[bauss via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 16:01:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Does anyone know how to keep track of multiple clients in 
> Cheetah socket lib such that one can directly message a client 
> or broadcast to all connected clients.
>
>
> Something like:
>
> onMessage(... e)
> {
> ...
>    // send to all
>    e.clients.broadcast (message);
>
> ...OR...
>    // target a client
>     e.clients[clientID].send(message);
> }
>
> Or any D lib with similar function.

I have now added an internal client-storage to the project.

The server will have a getClientById(size_t) and a getClients() 
which can be used.

Ex.

foreach (client; e.server.getClients())  {
     // ... Broadcast to each client here
}

...

e.server.getClientById(clientId).send(...);

Each client will be attached to a clientId when they connect.

The client id is a property of the SocketClient class.

To enable the internal storage you must set storeClients to true 
on the server when initializing it, otherwise the storage won't 
be used.

Ex.

server.storeClients = true;

If you don't want to get latest version of it, then you can just 
make your own storage ex. an associative array and then add each 
client to it when they connect.

Right now dub doesn't seem to be able to trigger a manual update 
on the package, so you might have to fetch the updates manually 
from the Github repository.

https://github.com/bausshf/cheetah/commit/9646fd407d274a94c37dc1b0297541963aeb3e6d