Is it possible to have a socket.io client respond to all events without to have specify each event individually?
For example, something like this (which obviously doesn't work right now):
var socket = io.connect("http://myserver");
socket.on("*", function(){
// listen to any and all events that are emitted from the
// socket.io back-end server, and handle them here.
// is this possible? how can i do this?
});
I want this callback function to be called when any / all events are received by the client-side socket.io code.
Is this possible? How?
It looks like the socket.io library stores these in a dictionary. As such, don't think this would be possible without modifying the source.
From source:
EventEmitter.prototype.on = function (name, fn) {
if (!this.$events) {
this.$events = {};
}
if (!this.$events[name]) {
this.$events[name] = fn;
} else if (io.util.isArray(this.$events[name])) {
this.$events[name].push(fn);
} else {
this.$events[name] = [this.$events[name], fn];
}
return this;
};