Create a room with conversation_id and make users to subscribe to that room,
so that you can emit a private message to that room it by,
client
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var socket = io.connect('http://ip:port');
socket.emit('subscribe', conversation_id);
socket.emit('send message', {
room: conversation_id,
message: "Some message"
});
socket.on('conversation private post', function(data) {
//display data.message
});
Server
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socket.on('subscribe', function(room) {
console.log('joining room', room);
socket.join(room);
});
socket.on('send message', function(data) {
console.log('sending room post', data.room);
socket.broadcast.to(data.room).emit('conversation private post', {
message: data.message
});
});
Here is my Stackoverflow answer : http://stackoverflow.com/a/23623724/453486
Comments
for example: For this conversaton, we can generate a random ID named "unknown_aug12"
var conversation_id = "chat_with_unknown_aug12"
socket.emit('subscribe', conversation_id);