Reconnect Events stop firing once the socket is disconnected and connected again.

[njethani]

On initial connection using socket.connect:

1. Socket is connected
2. Receives all events.
3. If the server goes down, then the socket keeps on trying to reconnect and gets connected as soon as the server is back up.

Everything looks fine till here. Now closed socket using socket.disconnect() and connected back using socket.connect(), I see the following behavior:

1. Socket is connected
2. Receives all events.
3. If the server goes down, then the socket does not try to reconnect and instead a disconnect event is received.

I also tried enabling 'ForceNew' option and still doesn't help.

[nuclearace]

I'm not able to reproduce. It worked following your steps

[EduardoAlberti]

I have a similar behavior, but no need to call socket.disconnect(). What I'm doing to test is:
I have a SocketIO server that restart every 5 Sec and this client connected to it. The behavior is:

2016-08-22 11:27:30.878 socket reconnect
2016-08-22 11:27:30.878  socket reconnectAttempt
2016-08-22 11:27:32.284 socket error
2016-08-22 11:27:34.178 socket reconnectAttempt
2016-08-22 11:27:34.179  socket reconnectAttempt
2016-08-22 11:27:35.088  socket connected

After a few minutes of this behavior the client stops reconnecting and never connect again.
Hoping this helps to solve the issue.

[thesugarrush]

Hello,

What I did to work-around this issue is by explicitly specify the socket.reconnect = true, before socket.connects.

So, in the initial connection options, even if you set the reconnect flag to true (see no 1).
But after socket.disconnect, that flag value for some reason no longer honored.
So what i did was to set the flag to true again before socket.connect (see no 2) somewhere in the code when you start socket connection to your backend.

No 1:

private var socket = SocketIOClient(socketURL: NSURL(string:  socketHostname,
        options: [
            **.Reconnects(true),**
            .ReconnectAttempts(50),
            .ReconnectWait(3),
            .Log(false),
            .ForcePolling(false),
            .ForceWebsockets(true),
            .ForceNew(true), // this only happens when disconected
            .Secure(true),
            .SelfSigned(true)
        ]);

No 2:

// this is workaround for socket-ioswift client bug: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-swift/issues/442
socket.reconnects = true;
// end of workaround
socket.connect();

This seems to solve my problem executing socket.disconnect() not auto-reconnecting the second time around...

Hope this helps...