Does SignalR send response to all the connections including the current connection, or all but excluding the current?

Question

Let's say for example I've a button that displays alert to all the users. When I click the button, all the connected clients will see the alert.

And let's say this is done by calling a Server Method from client, which calls a function on Client that show an alert.

For example:

public class DemoHub : Hub {
    public void ShowAlert(String message) {
        Clients.All.showAlertMessage(message);
    }
}

This is a server method in hub, that calls the client function to show alert message.

My question is, does the alert will be shown to the current client too? I mean, if I click the button, do I see the alert myself in this case?

Note: the above scenario is not a real scenario, that is just a similar illustration of my issue as my current scenario is rather complex to explain.

Answer 1

To broadcast to ALL connections including the caller you would use

Clients.All.showAlertMessage(message);

To broadcast to ALL EXCEPT the caller you will want to use the method

Clients.Others.showAlertMessage(message);

Can find more documentation on this at http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/signalr-20/hubs-api/hubs-api-guide-server#callfromhub

This method above will broadcast to all connections except the current one which I believe is what you are looking for