Godot Version
4.1.2
Question
I am working on a client/server project using the WebSocketMultiplayerPeer for communiaction. Creating the initial connection works fine and the signal handlers for peer_connected and peer_disconnected are called correctly when a client connects to the server.
In case of a connection loss, I want the client to automatically reconnect, by creating a new instance of the WebSocketMultiplayerPeer, connecting the signals, and calling create_client() with the server URL again.
I am checking if a reconnect is necessary in the _process() method (max once every 10 seconds), and the code for the new WebSocketMultiplayerPeer is called, but the connection just is not established.
For testing purposes I disabled the initial connection in the _ready() method and started with the reconnection flag set to true and in this case even the initial connection is not formed.
Both ways call the same method. Called from _ready() the connection works, but called from _process() it does not. This is the (simplyfied) method creating the client:
func _connect_to_server(recreate_connection: bool = false) :
if recreate_connection:
_socket = WebSocketMultiplayerPeer.new()
_socket.peer_connected.connect(_on_socket_connected)
_socket.peer_disconnected.connect(_on_socket_disconnected)
print("Connecting to %s" % [_server_url])
_socket.create_client(_server_url)
Does anybody have any ideas, why the connection is created correctly when called from _ready() but not from _process()?
Any hints or input on how to automatically reconnect a WebSocketMultiplayerPeer would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Patrick