Roblox-Long-Polling A Node.JS Module to Make Real-Time Communication Easy [Scalable Version Now Available]

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#21

How do I stop the Roblox side (Client) from continuing to run past the shutdown deadline?

#22

Iā€™ve discovered this bug and meant to push my fix to GitHub but I havenā€™t quite got around to it. Do me a favor and DM me here on the dev forum and remind me to do it.

#23

Just did! Thanks for this library, as it truly is an excellent use for connecting between my Node.js backend API for my service and Roblox!

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#24

Update! We had a bug rolled out where we were not decoding messages on the node-server end of things. This has since been fixed, if you are having issues where itā€™s not working just upgrade your back-end/node version and the issue should subside. Sorry for any inconvience.

#25

yo i just found out about this and this seems pretty nice!!

i must ask tho, what is the license?
am i able to use it in commercial projects?
(also once again this was exactly what i was looking for lol)

#26

I havenā€™t attached a license, as itā€™s open source. Itā€™s free to use, commercially, publically, or in any way you want. We guarantee no warranties or any guarantees at that. Youā€™re free to use it as you wish (as long as you are not claiming it as your own).

#27

epic, thanks man

thisll help a lot with my ideas regarding remote stuff

#28

Hey there! Awesome idea, Iā€™ve thought of doing this for a bit of time, but you just saved my life, lol, mind if I take it and optimize it a little more?

#29

He is using the MIT License, which means that heā€™s OK with people sharing modified source code, with some limitations. See this for an overview of the MIT License.

#30

I know. I just want to be nice and ask first :slight_smile:

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#31

Yes, you are okay to make modifications to the code. Thanks for asking!

#32

Is there a python version of this? Iā€™m currently struggling to make a system where the applications get sent through roblox to discord bot for review.

#33

I donā€™t think so but itā€™s definitely possible to make one.

#34

hey, I dont think :Disconnect() is working properly. I added a few print statements within the statement after the request is issued and they never fired. The Disconnect function also timeouts when given enough time.

edit: it was a spelling error within my program. I fixed it, however even upon disconnect the pings continue. This causes extremely long close times for servers. I am wondering if there is any way to disconnect 100% and stop pings so that servers can close easier.

edit 2: It seems the issue was on line 65 and 66 of the Connection ModuleScript.

game:BindToClose(close);
game.Close:Connect(close)

these bind this function to when the server closes:

local function close()
	HttpService:RequestAsync({
		Url = newConnection.url.."/connection/"..newConnection.id,
		Method = "DELETE",
	})
end

this RequestAsync is never satisfied and so it hangs permanently. I have 0 use for this bind to close as I disconnect all of my connections before the server shutdown in a seperate script so I just removed it. This made servers go from taking 20-30 seconds to close to taking under 1.

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#35

So apparently, there was a typo made in the instructions:

connection.on('dsconnect', () => {})

Itā€™s actually disconnect.

connection.on('disconnect', () => {})

This fixed it for me. Hope it helps!

(i noticed that even though the server receives the disconnection, in game it still gives the HttpError: Timedout message)

#36

Thanks for the heads up. Going to fix some bugs with this soon once I have the chance, just been very busy lately.

#37

No problem. I wrapped the :Disconnect function in a pcall to avoid getting the error. Mind that you should update the source code to use the task library as it is kinda old by now.

Edit: I just wrapped the close function in it too. Iā€™m getting a ā€œNot running script because past shutdown deadlineā€ error, as my game freezes when stopping it. (still getting the error)

Edit #2: This is good.

local function close()
	pcall(function()
		local success = false
			
		task.spawn(function()
			HttpService:RequestAsync({
				Url = newConnection.url.."/connection/"..newConnection.id,
				Method = "DELETE",
			})
			success = true
		end)
		
		task.wait(5)
		
		if not success then
			return
		end
	end)
end
#38

hey, I am getting this error:
Error: Cannot find module '/Users/_/Documents/rlp_test/node_modules/roblox-long-polling/index.js'. Please verify that the package.json has a valid "main" entry

How can I fix this? itā€™s installed at its latest version

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