Check stream name server side

[mainegate]

Anyone know if you can check the stream name on the server side? I want to check an allowed list of stream names to make sure they can use the swf and Flash media encoder.

[lg101]

Yes, you can check the stream name by using, Stream.name
function getStreamName(myStream){
return myStream.name;
}

[mainegate]

I have put that server side but I'm not getting it to work...when I have the user publish I put this after it...

nc.call("getStreamName", null);

I'm getting this error message from the server..'Sending error message: Method not found (getStreamName).'

If I trace out Stream.name without publishing it traces "Stream".

Any idea?

[vivansarai]

Hi mainegate;

For using Stream.name property, we need to use Stream Object which is being published. Supppose if you are publishing/playing a Stream on Server Side
Ex:
var stream = Stream.get("LiveStream");

stream.play("Foo",0,-1); //playing the local file Foo.flv on sever side.

trace("Stream Name is :: "+stream.name); //You should be getting "Stream Name is :: LiveStream".

Case 2: If you want to check for the Stream name with which, Client is Publishing.

For this use ::

application.onPublish(clientObject, streamObject)
{
trace("Stream name :: "+streamObject.name); // This should trace the name of the stream with whihc Client is publishing .
}


Note: application.onPublish(clientObj,streamObj) is event which gets triggered only when client Publishes a stream. So If you want to strore the name of the stream then one need to create a global variable to store it.

Hope this helps..

More detail about Stream.name property :

StreamObject.name

Read-only; contains a unique string associated with a live stream. You can use this property as an index to find a stream within an application on Server Side.
Availability
Flash Communication Server 1
Example
The following function takes a Stream object as a parameter and returns the name of the stream:
function getStreamName(myStream){
return myStream.name;
}

-Vivansa

[mainegate]

Thanks a lot. I can finally trace out the stream name! I did the second approach.

What I'm trying to do is make sure people cannot stream unless it their id...so say my id is 317....when I publish my stream I call the stream 317. I am trying to only connect 317. I tried the following but it is not disconnecting. myStream.name traces out to 317.

application.onPublish = function(clientObj, myStream)
{
trace("Now streaming: " + myStream.name);
if(myStream.name != "317")
{
application.disconnect(this.client);
}
};

[mainegate]

Well I got it to work...however I just realized that it actually publishes it before it unpublishes it...anyway around that?

if(myStream.name != "317")
{
application.disconnect(clientObj);
}