I’m trying to build an application that allows users to interact with a shared document, but depending on their role they will have access to a different set of shared documents.
So far I’ve done this by defining a different room for each role, but I’ve noticed that If I don’t disconnect the user from this room and enter another room the contents end up overlapping each other.
Something Like this:
room A → content A
room B → content B
When I don’t disconnect
room A → content B
room B → content B
I fix this issue by making sure that the user disconnects whenever he leaves the page, but I’m not confident that this problem won’t happen again.
That’s why I want to know why this happened and if this is the right way of doing it.
That’s how I’m doing It
Hi. Are you explicitly calling provider.destroy() on the old provider instance when the room changes? Otherwise it seems like the connection could persist.
Also make sure to create a new Doc instance for the new room. Docs are not designed to be containers for content that can be switched in and out.
On a different note, the room system is somewhat limited as an authentication system. It is essentially just a “secret” url, so there is no way to unshare or change a user’s role. It is possible to generate a new room every time anyone’s role is revoked, but then you have to distribute that new room to all remaining participants. A server-side authentication system seems more flexible. Not sure what your requirements are though :).
