SignalR user is not registered in Client.Users

Question

I am creating a chat between 2 users. Here's my hub and hub client:

public class ConversationHub : Hub<IConversationHubClient>
{
    public override Task OnConnected()
    {
        var id = this.Context.User.Identity.GetUserId();
        //when I breakpoint here, I can see the id of my connected user.
        return base.OnConnected();
    }
}

public interface IConversationHubClient
{
    void MessageReceived(string conversationId, 
        string userId, 
        string text, 
        DateTime date, 
        bool isUser);
}

And from the mvc controller, I am calling:

string userId = this.User.Identity.GetUserId();
_conversationHub.Clients
            .User(userId)
            .MessageReceived(model.ConversationId, userId , model.Text, model.Date, true);
//I want to send back the message to the user, for testing purposes

And finally here is the front-end:

var conversationhub = $.connection.conversationHub;

//messageReceived
conversationhub.client.MessageReceived = function (conversationId, userId, text, sentOn, isUser){
        alert(':D');
    };

I am expecting to see the alert when I trigger my mvc controller method but nothing happens. It seems to me that the user is not registered in the connected users but I don't understand why and how to register it. Can someone help me on that?

Answer 1

Well, turns out it didn't work because of the way I was injecting the hubContext on my MVC Controller.

I followed the article on SignalR DI with ninject.

My binding was wrong. After following the example, I change my binding to:

   this.Kernel.Bind<IHubContext<IConversationHubClient>>()
            .ToMethod(x => GlobalHost.DependencyResolver.Resolve<IConnectionManager>()
               .GetHubContext<ConversationHub, IConversationHubClient>());

And everything worked!