Add an ability to listen for any message coming in

[radekg]

I have an app that needs to know what channels/topics the clients want to listen on without knowing in advance what these are. I applied this small change in transport.js, onMessage:

if ( this.manager.onAnyPacket ) {
    this.manager.onAnyPacket( this, packet );
}

// handle packet locally or publish it
if (current) {
...

Then in my app, server side, I can do:

io.onAnyPacket(function(client, packet) {
    ...
});

It would be nice to have that sort of entry point. What do you think? Or is it already available in some other form which I'm not aware of?

[briankereszturi]

I use a similar method, but it would be very useful to have this built in. Maybe a pull request is in order?

[radekg]

Wow, completely forgot about it. Can't believe no follow up for 6 months.

[rauchg]

@radekg we have packet introspection coming at the protocol level (that includes even ping/handshake packets etc)

[radekg]

Cool.