From 83a820b720cb6659dcd2e11ea1103459563839d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John McLear <john@mclear.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:59:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] new function for handling custom messages, allows objects to
 be sent, before we only allowed strings

---
 src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js b/src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js
index c046f130..076f31a5 100644
--- a/src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js
+++ b/src/node/handler/PadMessageHandler.js
@@ -254,6 +254,23 @@ function handleSaveRevisionMessage(client, message){
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Handles a custom message, different to the function below as it handles objects not strings and you can direct the message to specific sessionID
+ *
+ * @param msg {Object} the message we're sending
+ * @param sessionID {string} the socketIO session to which we're sending this message
+ */
+exports.handleCustomObjectMessage = function (msg, sessionID, cb) {
+  if(sessionID){ // If a sessionID is targeted then send directly to this sessionID
+    io.sockets.socket(sessionID).emit(msg); // send a targeted message
+  }else{
+    socketio.sockets.in(msg.data.padId).json.send(msg); // broadcast to all clients on this pad
+  }
+
+  cb(null, {});
+}
+
+
 /**
  * Handles a custom message (sent via HTTP API request)
  *