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Check if online

I would like to send a message to an array of players only if they are online. 

If they are not, they will get a complete game state update when login in, and do not need to receive that message later.

How can i read that crucial "online" field in the player collection?

Also, I'm not using challenges.


Thanks for any clues!




Best Answer

https://docs.gamesparks.net/documentation/cloud-code-api/spark-cloud-code-api/spark#loadPlayer


Will load a player object by id.

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Hi Gabriel


You can check using this:


https://docs.gamesparks.net/documentation/cloud-code-api/spark-cloud-code-api/sparkplayer#isOnline


Sorry, the example is missing (I'll fix that) but it should be


var isOnline = myPlayer.isOnline()


Gabriel

Sounds good. But then my question is how do I get a "myPlayer" object from a playerId?

I have to loop and check which players are online from my array, but i don't see any way to get a player object apart from the Spark.getPlayer() which does not take parameters and return only the active player...

Answer

https://docs.gamesparks.net/documentation/cloud-code-api/spark-cloud-code-api/spark#loadPlayer


Will load a player object by id.

Well I just saw that... And I don't understand how i missed it before...

Sorry for the inconvenience.


And the last question on the subject: why does the "online" field stay false when a player is connected from my unity editor when it's made true when connected from the test harness. Even sending correctly 2 custom events does not make the online field go true.

If the isOnline function can't be relied upon for all platform, i would prefer to use the "lastSeen" field to decide if a message should or should not be send. However, I can't seem to find a way to do so. And I did thoroughly consulted the SparkPlayer page this time.

Hi Gabriel,


You can do a last seen in cloud code by putting the following in your AuthenticationResponse:


 

    
var lastLogin = Spark.getPlayer().getScriptData("lastLogin"); //Get the last login, probably check that it's not null first to prevent errors.
    
Spark.setScriptData("lastLogin", lastLogin); //The the scriptData before updating the lastLogin variable
    
Spark.getPlayer().setScriptData("lastLogin", new Date()); //Update the loginData on the player's profile


Shane 

Sorry to resurrect this thread,

is there a way to access any player data (in particular the "online" parameter) from a request in C#?


For example, when i send a GetLeaderboardDataRequest():


  foreach (var entry in response.Data)

{

  

string mytext= "ONLINE " + entry.isonline.ToString();

  

}


Thanks!

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