How to disconnect a socket temporarily

[cachapa]

Is there a way to "pause" a connection, i.e. close the connection temporarily to recover it later?
My intention is to close the connection when my app is no longer in the foreground, and re-open it when the user brings it back.

Calling close() disposes the socket which throws an exception on a later connect().
Passing the reconnect flag as true seems to just cause the socket to reconnect immediately after. I'm not even sure what's the point of it doing that, is it intended behaviour?

[matehat]

Currently it's not possible to do that, and I don't think the reference implementation from the core Phoenix team supports that either. A solution would be to close and dispose of the socket when you go in the background, and re-instantiate a new PhoenixSocket when your app resumes.

The reconnect flag is used internally following a connection close, due to protocol error or transient network failure, for cases where you can get a new connection by re-connecting.

[cachapa]

I see, thanks. I was confused by the name of the flag.
I'll go the socket disposal route then, thanks!

[matehat]

@cachapa great! don't hesitate if you hit other roadblocks!