disable periodic ping in webix jet auth plugin

mdissel · April 1, 2020, 9:57am

How can we disable the feature to automatically ping every x ms in the auth plugin?

gartner/webix-login/blob/5b527ebace778c9aed630f36bbffec3871cafdd7/sources/plugins/auth.js#L8

    
      
          export function auth(app, view, config) {
          
          
    const authModel   = config.model;
              const login       = config.login || "/login";
              const logout      = config.logout || "/top/logout";
              const afterLogin  = config.afterLogin || app.config.start;
              const afterLogout = config.afterLogout || "/login";
              const ping        = config.ping || 5 * 60 * 1000;
          
          
    let credentials = null;
          
          
    const service = {
          
          
        getUser() {
                      return credentials;
                  },
          
          
        getStatus(server) {

It seems to always default to 5 * 60 *1000

Thanks

Dzmitry · July 9, 2020, 3:40pm

Hello @mdissel,

Unfortunately, the ping functionality cannot be disabled completely, as can be seen from the code:

const ping = config.ping || 5 * 60 * 1000;

Setting ping to 0 inside the plugin config will result in a falsy value for that comparison, defaulting the ping value to 300000ms.

The ping functionality is important since it informs server-side that the client app is still open and at the same time it can inform the user if the server-side session has been ended.