Access underlying socket object

[evanshortiss]

In an application I'm working on I'd like to check that the socket has flushed data. This can be done using socket.bufferedAmount according to this SO post

Could this library support a function to check this, or simply expose the underlying socket object for these use cases, e.g:

const ws = new Sockette('ws://localhost:3000', {
  timeout: 5e3,
  maxAttempts: 10,
  onopen: e => console.log('Connected!', e),
  onmessage: e => console.log('Received:', e),
  onreconnect: e => console.log('Reconnecting...', e),
  onmaximum: e => console.log('Stop Attempting!', e),
  onclose: e => console.log('Closed!', e),
  onerror: e => console.log('Error:', e)
});

// access underlying socket
ws.socket.bufferedAmount

[lukeed]

Hey, you were so close 😉

The underlying socket is available to any & all event handlers. The WebSocket is an event emitter, so the current, up-to-date WebSocket instance is always available as ev.target. You can save that reference and do whatever you'd like with it!

There are a few examples scattered across the issues; https://github.com/lukeed/sockette/issues/12#issuecomment-365170978, https://github.com/lukeed/sockette/issues/31#issuecomment-406741545, and https://github.com/lukeed/sockette/issues/18

Hope that helps!

[evanshortiss]

Man I need to RTFM next time and not just the Example code. Thanks! 👍

[lukeed]

No worries!