Flask-socketio: How to close a room ?

[bruno-siqueira-simples]

Hey guys, I need to close a room and disconnect all users who are in it, how do I do this?

[miguelgrinberg]

The close_room() function will close a room and remove all users from it. It will not disconnect the users from their Socket.IO connections though. Is that sufficient?

[bruno-siqueira-simples]

Yeah, thank you!! Is it possible to disconnect all clients and then delete the room ?

[miguelgrinberg]

If your application knows which users are in the room, you can call disconnect() on each of them. There is no mass disconnection feature at this time.

[bruno-siqueira-simples]

Okay, thank you very much for the help!!

[bruno-siqueira-simples]

Hey @miguelgrinberg, can you tell me what the lifetime of a socket is? and how damaging is leaving multiple sockets open?

[miguelgrinberg]

The socket is connected until one of the parties disconnects. Leaving sockets open consumes file handles, not a good idea to leave them open if they are not needed because file handles are a limited resource. For example, if you have a file handle leak, eventually you'll reach a point where the process will not be able to open any new connections.

[bruno-siqueira-simples]

Okay, thank you !! Can you tell me what would be the maximum number of simultaneous sockets?

[miguelgrinberg]

There is no maximum, the max is dictated by available memory, limit of file handles in the OS, etc.