sencha io messages

[gkatz]

Hi;
I am playing around with the idea of adding an anonymous chat to my sencha touch app.
my requirements are very simple:
-single chat room for everyone
-user publishes message to everyone (pub/sub only)
-no need for user authentication - users are anonymous

I just want to know if sencha io is a good place for such an implementation. as its an anonymous chat, I only need a single user that probably everyone will use, only one queue, etc...
am I right here?
also, I ado I even need a user/user group/app/app version etc? i only need a queue for my app that everyone can connect to. I definetly don't want users to log in with credentials to use this feature (cause they'll simply not use it)
thanks in advance.

[mitchellsimoens]

The issue I see with only having one user is how do you know what message belongs to what client user?

[gkatz]

valid point
I am not sure cause i dont really now the api yet...
Assuming i dont care where the message came from i guess it can work?
Also, assuming i already manage users in a db for my non sencha desktop website, what is the best practice here? Can i map user auth to my db? Or do i need to port all my users to sencha login?

[merrells]

Hello,

Yes, SIO does support anonymous messaging.

You can create a named queue and pass all your messages through that.

No need for any user authentication.

The message you send would be:

{from:'john',message:'yes anon msg wks!'}

Then you can use the from as the label in your chat widget.

John: yes anon msg wks!

You can send whatever you want through. It's a simple JS object that's turned into a JSON for transmission.

John