Events not triggered

[imteractive]

Hi,

I have a server extension (written in Java) that is assigning some user variables on a "USER_JOIN_ZONE" event handler.

The problem is that if I use the code below, the client is notified of the variables update and everything is fine:

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SFSUserVariable energy = new SFSUserVariable("energy", 100);	    	
ArrayList<UserVariable> userVariables = new ArrayList<UserVariable>();
userVariables.add(energy);
this.getApi().setUserVariables(user, userVariables);

However, if I use this (which makes a lot more sense to me), the client is not notified of the changes, neither the variables are updated on the client:

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SFSUserVariable energy = new SFSUserVariable("energy", 100);	 
user.setVariable(energy);

Can someone tell me what's the difference here?

[rjgtav]

Hi.
The difference is that those methods (user.setVariable(), room.setVariable(), etc) are for internal use only by the server's internal API, as they, in this case, just set the variables. When you update a variable, you have to set it in the user/room's object and then notify the necessary users about that change. The SFSApi's methods do all those internal procedures on the background automatically, so it's suggested for you to use it instead of using the direct methods.