How to trigger an event ?

[hamxabaig]

Hey there, I checked the documentation, seems there is no way i can trigger an event or get the pusher channel so i can trigger events on my own. Is there any way ? Or its not supported at all

[TheRusskiy]

@hamxabaig I don't think (correct me if I am wrong) that Pusher supports triggering events at all on client side, only on server, otherwise all your private keys would be exposed.

[hamxabaig]

@TheRusskiy mmm, It supports check this out

[hamxabaig]

All we need is channel object returned by subscribe.

[adbalits]

@hamxabaig I also needed to trigger client events so just sent a pull request that would allow it.

It would work as follows...

import { getChannel } from 'pusher-redux'

// gets the channel object from the client
var myChannel = getChannel('my-channel-name');

// trigger an event with your args
myChannel.trigger(...);

[hamxabaig]

@adbalits thats cool, Yes it does make sense for a feature like this 🎉

[TheRusskiy]

@adbalits thanks again for taking your time to do the pull request.
@hamxabaig once the pull request is merged you are good?

[hamxabaig]

@TheRusskiy one more thing is, I've a use case where i need to execute a function after i get the event from pusher-redux. We can do this easily with redux as disptach() returns a promise that i can use. Its this line

pusher-redux/lib/pusher-redux.js

Line 109 in 1eed6bd

config.store.dispatch(pusherAction({ actionType: actionType, channelName: channelName, eventName: eventName, data: data, additionalParams: additionalParams }));

Right now i've forked the repo and added a callback function to the params of subscribe and then using it in the dispatch(..).then(cb)

Do you have some alternative solution to it?

[TheRusskiy]

@hamxabaig
Let me make sure I understand this correctly:
You need to have some 2nd action, after the first has fired?
May be subscribe to that event like this reduxjs/redux#580 (comment) (check if action is coming from pusher-redux)

[hamxabaig]

@TheRusskiy you understood correctly, I found a way to get this done. Can you release the feature getChannel to npm ?
Thanks