How to get Transaction Provider

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I’m making canvas collaboration tools like figma. Is there a way to distinguish the provider that caused the transaction?

We need a way to figure out who’s moving the canvas elements.

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You can specify an optional origin parameter that is stored on transaction.origin and on('update', (update, origin) => ...)

See: doc.transact

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I know. But I’m using a web socket, and when another user controls the canvas, the transaction.origin points to the web socket.

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Wow, you’re right. That seems wrong to me. Maybe an oversight in the Websocket implementation? It ought to pass the origin all the way through.

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I am using a y-websocket that is not customized. Isn’t there any way at the moment?

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The origin will generally point to the provider of the current client, so if you want to track the remote origin you’ll have to do that separately.