Most of the time the messages are passed normally, but a couple messages in particular arent recieved until the recieving client sends a message. This happens everytime for specific methods/messages, but not at all for others.
Example: user1 sends a message, user2 then sends a message to receive message from user1.
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We ran into this issue and the solution had to do with how we wrote our promises. We initially used the sample code provided by Amazon
https://github.com/aws-samples/simple-websockets-chat-app/blob/master/sendmessage/app.js#L26
const postCalls = connectionData.Items.map(async ({ connectionId }) => {
try {
await apigwManagementApi.postToConnection({ ConnectionId: connectionId, Data: postData }).promise();
} catch (e) {
if (e.statusCode === 410) {
console.log(`Found stale connection, deleting ${connectionId}`);
await ddb.delete({ TableName: TABLE_NAME, Key: { connectionId } }).promise();
} else {
throw e;
}
}
});
And I'm pretty sure having an async function as a map function doesn't work properly or reliably (for whatever reason. maybe this is documented somewhere), so we changed it to a simple for loop and it fixed the issue.
for(const connection of connectionData.Items) {
const connectionId = connection.connectionId;
...same logic goes here
}