When is the onUserLeaveLobby event fired?

Question

Hi, as the title suggests, I would like to know when the onUserLeaveLobby event is fired. Based on the documentation, it should be fired when a user leaves the lobby room, because (eg) that user has joined another room. But, this is not the case. A user will join / subscribed to the other room, but that method is not fired. Now, the weird thing is that the user is also joined / subscribed into the Lobby room, and this is because that user does get informed about what is happening in the Lobby room. So, can a user leave from the Lobby room? I have the impression that (s)he can not. Thank you, Vasilis

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Is it possible to have a reply today?
I would like to submit an update and I need to know if it is possible to use the Lobby or use a static room

Thank you

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I just used the Test Manager page, and there it works. When I was joining a room, I would leave the Lobby. Could this mean that the joinAndSubscribeRoom method is buggy, and instead I should use the joinRoom and subscribeRoom methods?

Answer 1

Hi Vasilis,

Apologies for late reply.

Yes, you are right. Whenever a user joins the room and if he is in the lobby then he will be automatically out of the lobby on the server.

The notification gets fired in if a user calls leaveLobby API or he/she joins a room.

Regarding the notification not fired when joins room, I have forwarded this to my development team to check and will get back to you asap on this.

Also, if your use-case can be achieved using a static room as of now then you can ahead and use it.

Static room and Lobby both have different behavior so its depend on your use-case that which you want to use lobby or Static room. However, you can use both or any of one based on your requirement.

Thanks.

 

Answer 2

Hi Rajeev,

Thank you for replying.

I hesitate to use a static room, because I will break compatibility between the two versions of the app.

Last night, I found out that although the onUserLeaveLobby event is not fired, I do have left the Lobby. But, in rare cases, I am not. This will happen when there is a problem with your server. Last night, your server did have that problem, and because of that I was subscribed in two rooms, e.g. I was never unsubscribed from the Lobby, and I was subscribed in the game room.

 

I really do not know if I should write a code that would handle all these issues. I believe that it is your job to make sure that when I call the joinAndSubscribeRoom method, I would leave and unsubscribe from the Lobby (or which ever room I was in). If you can't, then please put that in the documentation so that we can code accordingly.

Thank you,

Vasilis

 

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