Using ->toOthers() results in a "Ably error: Malformed message; invalid connectionKey" Same as issue 38

[graphem]

Hi!

Seems I am getting this as well when using the method in Laravel. I have all the latest packages and Laravel 11 latest.

broadcast(new ChatMessageCreated($message))->toOthers();

Result in:

[2024-09-15 01:38:06] local.ERROR: Ably error: Malformed message; invalid connectionKey {"userId":1,"exception":"[object] (Illuminate\Broadcasting\BroadcastException(code: 0): Ably error: Malformed message; invalid connectionKey at /vendor/ably/laravel-broadcaster/src/AblyBroadcaster.php:187)

I check the X-Socket-Id, it is there. And the socket is in the payload sent to the Rest api

I am really not sure what causes this. I do see that have a couple of websocket initiating, I did connect to different channels as I have a channel fro chat, for announcement and for some other events.

So not sure why the socket id a invalid connectionkey.

I check both on the front end and in the AblyBroadcaster.php and the key are exactly the same.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task by Unito

[sacOO7]

Hi @graphem thanks for raising the issue. Can you confirm you are using laravel-echo at client side? It will be great if you can create a dummy repo that can help us reproduce the issue. Then we can try to fix it ASAP.

[graphem]

Yes I am using Echo. I will see what I can do for the dummy repo. Thanks!

[sacOO7]

Yes I am using Echo. I will see what I can do for the dummy repo. Thanks!

Thanks, that would be super useful 👍

[graphem]

@sacOO7 Here is the repo:
https://github.com/graphem/build-a-realtime-chat-with-laravel-vue-and-pinia

You will need to run the migration and add a room in the DB, then visit the /rooms/{slug}. Then you will see the 500 happening on trying to publish a message.

Thanks!!

[sacOO7]

@graphem thanks for creating the repo. We will try to reproduce from our side and post updates here

[graphem]

@sacOO7 Were you able to reproduce?

[sacOO7]

Hi @graphem I was able to reproduce the issue. Although, I had to manually edit the db for rooms ( by following original video series from source ) Btw, does this code work properly for reverb?

[sacOO7]

Seems I have found out the issue. This also needs sending clientId as per https://ably.com/docs/channels#publish-on-behalf. Currently, we are only sending connectionKey. This will work when user is not logged in. But for logged in user, we need to send clientId as well. This will require updating both laravel-broadcaster and laravel-echo packages. We should be able to update the same in next few days 👍

[graphem]

And yes the project works fine with Reverb.