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The presence service enables developers to show who is online and who is not. In addition, it provides developers a way to observe and handle when users go online or offline.

Presence Concepts

  • Channel - a channel is an ambiguous location dependent on your use case. A channel can represent your entire application or smaller areas of your application (ie. a friends list, a chat room, a video, a blog post, etc.) User’s can be present or not present within a channel.
  • Presence Event - a presence event is an event that is published to observers representing a user joining or leaving a channel.
  • Joining a Channel - a user joining a channel marks them present in the channel
  • Leaving a Channel - a user leaving a channel marks them no longer present in the channel
  • Subscribing to a Channel - when subscribed to a channel enables a developer to observe Presence Events on the channel
  • Unsubscribing from a Channel - when unsubscribed from a channel, Presence Events can no longer be observed

Retrieving a User's Presence

To check which all channels a user is currently present on.

import LiveLikeSwift

class SomeClass {
  let livelike: LiveLike
  
  func someMethod() {
        livelike.presenceClient.whereNow(
            for: "<profile-id>"
        ) { result in
            switch result {
            case .success(let channels):
                // handle success
            case .failure(let error):
                // handle failure
            }
        }
   }
}

val presenceClient = liveLikeSdk.presenceClient()

presenceClient.whereNow(
    <profile-id>,
    object : LiveLikeCallback<List<String>>() {
        override fun onResponse(result: List<String>?, error: String?) {
            error?.let{
                // handle failure
            }
            result?.let {
                // handle success
            }
        }
    }
)

LiveLike.getPresenceUserChannels({ 
  userProfileId: "<profile-id>" 
}).then(res => console.log(res))

Retrieving Presence Channel Users

To get list of users present in a channel.

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3 second response cache time.

When retrieving list of users in a given channel, there a response cache time of 3 seconds

LiveLike.getPresenceChannelUsers({ 
  channel: "<channel-1>"
}).then(({channelUsers}) => console.log(channelUsers))

Observing Channel's Presence Events

To observe a channel’s presence events, including when a user joins, leaves or has their attributes set.
In case of Mobile SDK's, you should subscribe to a presence channel. To stop observing a channel’s presence events use unsubscribe.

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Possible Presence Events

  • join - a user has joined a channel and became present
  • leave - a user has left a channel and is no longer present
  • timeout - a user’s presence in a channel has timed out
  • updateAttributes - a user’s presence attributes have changed
import LiveLikeSwift

class SomeClass {
   let livelike: LiveLike
  
   func someMethod() {
     livelike.presenceClient.setDelegate(self)
     
     // to subscribe
     livelike.presenceClient.subscribe(to: ["<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"])
     // to unsubscribe   
     livelike.presenceClient.unsubscribe(to: ["<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"])
   }
}

extension SomeClass: PresenceClientDelegate {
    func presenceClient(
        _ presenceClient: PresenceClient,
        didReceivePresenceEvents presenceEvents: [PresenceEvent]
    ) {
        presenceEvents.forEach { presenceEvent in
            switch presenceEvent.action {
            case .join:
                // handle a join event
            case .leave:
                // handle a leave event
            case .timeout:
                // handle a timeout event
            case .updateAttributes:
                // handle an updateAttributes event
            }
        }   
    }
}

val presenceClient = liveLikeSdk.presenceClient()

val subscription = presenceClient.subscribeForPresence(
    setOf("<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"),
) { presenceEvent ->
    when (presenceEvent) {
        is JoinEvent -> {
            // handle a join event
        }
        is LeaveEvent -> {
            // handle a leave event
        }
        is TimeoutEvent -> {
            // handle a timeout event
        }
        is UpdateEvent -> {
            // handle an updateAttributes event
        }
    }
}

presenceClient.unsubscribeForPresence(subscription)

function onPresenceListener({event, message}){
  // event would be one of the above mentioned presence Event i.e LiveLike.PresenceEventAction enum
}

// To add a listener callback
LiveLike.addPresenceListener({ channel: "<channel-1>" }, onPresenceListener)

// to remove a listener callback
LiveLike.removePresenceListener({ channel: "<channel-1>" }, onPresenceListener)

Set a User’s Presence

To set a User’s Presence in a channel, use the join method. To remove a User’s Presence in a channel, use the leave method.

import LiveLikeSwift

class SomeClass {
   let livelike: LiveLike
   
   func someMethod() {
     
     // join channel
     livelike.presenceClient.join(["<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"])
     
     // leave channel
     livelike.presenceClient.leave(["<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"])
   }
}

val presenceClient = liveLikeSdk.presenceClient()

presenceClient.joinChannels(
    setOf("<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"),
)

presenceClient.leaveChannels(
  setOf("<channel-1>", "<channel-2>")
)

// To join a user presence channel
LiveLike.joinPresenceChannel({ channel: "<channel-1>" })

// To leave a user presence channel
LiveLike.leavePresenceChannel({ channel: "<channel-1>" })

Presence Attributes

Presence attributes enable developers to set or get key/pair values associated to a user's presence in a channel. This functionality allows developers to expand on a user's presence even further by providing additional information about the user's presence.
Some examples of presence attributes are to add location, mood, game score.

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About Presence Attributes

  • The presence attributes data is not persisted anywhere. When the user disconnects, the presence attributes data is lost. If you require user's presence attributes to be restored on reconnect, be sure to cache that data locally.
  • Setting presence attributes overwrites any previously set data for a user on a channel.
  • The user must join a channel before getting or setting attributes.

Setting User’s Presence Attributes

You can set a user’s Presence Attributes by using the setAttributes method. Presence attributes is a dictionary of string keys and values and are on a per-channel basis.

import LiveLikeSwift

class SomeClass {
   let livelike: LiveLike
   
   func someMethod() {
        let attributes: PresenceClientAttributes = [
            "real-world-location" : "usa",
            "team" : "blue"
        ]
        
        livelike.presenceClient.setAttributes(
            for: ["<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"],
            with: attributes
        ) { result in
            switch result {
            case .failure(let error):
                // handle error
            case .success(let attributes):
                // handle success
        }
   }
}

val presenceClient = liveLikeSdk.presenceClient()

presenceClient.setAttributes(
    setOf("<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"),
    mapOf(
        "real-world-location" to "usa",
        "team" to "blue"
    )
)

LiveLike.setPresenceUserAttributes({
   channel: "<channel-1>",
   attributes: {
     "real-world-location" : "usa",
     "team" : "blue"
   }
})

Getting User’s Presence Attributes

To get a user’s presence attributes in a channel, use the getAttributes method.

import LiveLikeSwift

class SomeClass {
   let livelike: LiveLike
   
   func someMethod() {
        livelike.presenceClient.getAttributes(
            for: "<profile-id>"
            on: ["<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"]
        ) { result in
            switch result {
            case .failure(let error):
                // handle error
            case .success(let attributes):
                // handle success
        }
   }
}

val presenceClient = liveLikeSdk.presenceClient()

presenceClient.getAttributes(
    "<profile-id>",
    setOf("<channel-1>", "<channel-2>"),
    object : LiveLikeCallback<Map<String, Map<String, String>>>() {
        override fun onResponse(
            result: Map<String, Map<String, String>>?,
            error: String?
        ) {
            error?.let {
                // handle error
            }
            result?.let{
                // handle success
            }
        }
    }
)

LiveLike.getPresenceUserAttributes({
   channel: "<channel-1>",
   userProfileId: "<profile-id>"
}).then(attributes => console.log(attributes))

Updated 12 months ago