Routing with restify and socket.io in node

Question

I have a node app which routes the request based on the url using restfy.

Now in want to bring socket into picture. But app doesnot redirect to the function when when socket.io is used. I am using FlexSocket.IO library in flex.

Here's my code snippet.

// In app.js 
var restify = require('restify')
, http = require('http')
,socket = require('./routes/socket');

var app = restify.createServer();

app.get('/', socket.handle);
app.post('/', socket.handle);

var io = require('socket.io').listen(app);

app.listen(8080, function() {
  console.log('%s listening at %s', app.name, app.url);
});
io.configure(function() {
  io.set('transports', ['websocket','flashsocket']);
  io.set('flash policy port', 843);
});
exports.io = io;

//In socket.js
exports.handle = function (req, res, next) {
console.log('In Handle'); //doesn't print this
io.sockets.on('connection', function(client){
console.log('Connection establiished');
});

In Flex

private var socket:FlashSocket;
socket = new FlashSocket("localhost:8080");
socket.addEventListener(FlashSocketEvent.CONNECT, onConnect); 
socket.addEventListener(FlashSocketEvent.MESSAGE, onMessage);

protected function onConnect(event:FlashSocketEvent):void 
{
  Alert.show('connect'); //This alert is shown.
}

Is there anything wrong with the code? Why is the socket.handle function not called in node?

Answer 1

In app.js, try

var io = require('socket.io').listen(app.server); //app.server instead of just app