I am trying to find out how to do two things that seem to have similar mechanics. The first is to send a “friend request” or connection approval. A user selects a group and clicks to join. This sends a direct message to that groups admin. The admin can approve or deny the request. When the admin clicks approve, this triggers a database insert adding requestee to the group.
The other thing I’m looking to do is very similar, allowing users to connect with each other and then message. I have created the database query’s to find one another, but I have not been able to find any documentation on how to allow for direct messaging.
I have reviewed the following documentation (and it has helped get me very far!) but I have not been smart enough to put it all together to do what I want.
I think the answer to my first question is the answer to my second. Can someone provide an example of how to do something like this? I think novice developers like myself trying to create an app from an idea would greatly benefit from it. I will buy your next few rounds!
Create a DB table with “socket_id” and “user_id”, and insert on each connect action in websockets, the socket id of the user into that table
Create a new socket action “friend_request”
Create a “pending friend requests” table and server connect action to be able to query the pending friend requests and put in a server connect action in your layout page
When a user A sends a friend request to user B, use the “direct message” server action to send a socket event with the message type “friend_request”. In socket id insert user B’s socket_id that you can query from the table created in step 1
In your layout page: use the socket component to “receive” the socket events. Select “friend_request” as the message type, then in dynamic events when message is received: you can refresh the “pending friend requests” server action, which will now contain the last friend request
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Then with basically the same logic you can build the same requests to group admins
