Broadcast channel pattern question

[maclonghorn]

How can we setup a channel pattern where one of the tokens may contain a "dot"? For example, we use email address for user name, so if we want a channel for a specific user, the channel config would be ($user is authenticated user from JWT token):

Broadcast::channel('user.{username}', function ($user, $username) {
    return $user->login_name == $username;
});

In our case the channel is "[email protected]", so channelNameMatchesPattern (from /Illuminate/Broadcasting/Broadcasters/Broadcaster.php) returns false.

We just upgraded to Laravel 10 from 8, where it was working fine.

[henzeb]

Replace dot with dash?

[maclonghorn]

That is one potential solution, but we didn't want to force clients to change. What we decided instead was to add another channel format to routes/channels.php:

Broadcast::channel(
    'user.{username}@{domain}.{tld}',
    function ($user, $username, $domain, $tld) {
        return  $user->login_name == "$username@$domain.$tld";
    }
);

Having this in addition to the other one allows us to handle both username types (email and non-email).