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What broadcast driver is configured in your .env?
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Hello everyone! I am new to laravel and to websockets. I have got my websockets working on the laravel-websockets dashboard, and now am trying to trigger a websocket event with this:
axios.post('updatequeue', {queue_position: newPos});
newPos is a number.
This is my controller method:
public function updateQueue(Request $request){
$queueposition = $request->input('queue_position');
event(new QueueUpdate($queueposition));
}
This is my Event:
class QueueUpdate implements ShouldBroadcast
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;
public $queue_position;
/**
* Create a new event instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function __construct($queue_position)
{
$this->queue_position = $queue_position;
}
/**
* Get the channels the event should broadcast on.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel|array
*/
public function broadcastOn()
{
return new Channel('sessionid');
}
}
and this is my listener in vue:
mounted() {
Echo.channel('sessionid').listen('QueueUpdate', e => {
this.queue_position = e.queue_position;
});
}
When I watch for events in the dashboard, nothing shows up. I get a 200 response from the axios request.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I could be doing wrong to not be seeing the events?
Update:
My events __construct method is called, but broadcastOn() is not.
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