Managing Web Socket Connections Manually

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Default SDK behaviour on login

1. Logs the user into the SDK
2. Saves the details of the logged in user locally.
3. Creates a web-socket connection for the logged in user.

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Managing the Web-socket connections manually

1. While calling the init() function on the app startup, use the autoEstablishSocketConnection() method provided by the AppSettingsBuilder class. If set to true, the SDK manages the web-socket connection internally. If set to false, you handle it manually:

let appSettings = AppSettings.AppSettingsBuilder()
									.setRegion(region: "us")
									.autoEstablishSocketConnection(false)
									.build()

let _ =  CometChat.init(appId:"1976246d33493296",
                        appSettings: appSettings,
                        onSuccess: { (Success) in
            print( "Initialization onSuccess \(Success)")
        }) { (error) in
            print( "Initialization Error Code:  \(error.errorCode)")
            print( "Initialization Error Description:  \(error.errorDescription)")
        }

AppSettingsBuilder *appSettingBuilder = [[AppSettingsBuilder alloc]init];
AppSettings *appSettings = [[[appSettingBuilder autoEstablishSocketConnection:false]
														setRegionWithRegion: REGION_CODE]build];
[[CometChat alloc]initWithAppId:APP_ID appSettings:appSettings onSuccess:^(BOOL isSuccess) {
	NSLog(isSuccess ? @"CometChat Initialize Success:-YES" : @"CometChat Initialize Success:-NO");
} onError:^(CometChatException * error) {
	NSLog(@"Error %@",[error errorDescription]);
}];

2. You can manage the connection to the web-socket server using the connect() and disconnect() methods provided by the SDK.
3. Connect to the web-socket server

CometChat.connect()

CometChat.connect();

2. Disconnect from the web-socket server

CometChat.disconnect()

CometChat.disconnect();

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Next Steps