Handling Chromecast sessions in single page apps: "session_error" about mediaelement-plugins HOT 10 CLOSED

Thanks for all these useful info. There's not a lot of sources on how to achieve this and I'll look more into Cast documentation but I have no idea how to remove the sessions since that's what I was trying to do originally. I'll keep looking and keep you posted. Thanks again

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Can you do me a favor: in Chromecast.js create a method called cleanchromecast and put the code you use the code you set up to remove the current session and see if it does any good

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Also take a look at this Fiddle and see if anything could work for you: https://jsfiddle.net/gurupras/sgLfcocq/

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I fond this snippet and maybe that's the answer. Can you try using this?

function stopCasting() {
  var castSession = cast.framework.CastContext.getInstance().getCurrentSession();
  // End the session and pass 'true' to indicate
  // that receiver application should be stopped.
  castSession.endSession(true);
}

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I had already tried the last snippet but I added it to cleanchromecast(), added it on unmounting and all combinations I could come up with. Regardless of how you end the session, if you open chrome's console immediately afterwards, get the context instance (window.cast.framework.CastContext.getInstance()) and request a session (session.requestSession()), previous cast resumes. Apparently we need to kill the context, because as soon as you request a session on the same context everything you did on that context is still there.
I'm going to explore the fiddle you sent, but I believe the best and cleanest solution is to reset the context rather than having to handle sessions and a lot of code that I don't really need.
I tried removing the entire cast framework on unmounting with that purpose but that generates a lot of errors and I can't get it to cast again.
I'm going to keep digging...

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I tried creating a new context, since it's a singleton it should replace the previous one but apparently you cannot get a session from it so chomecast.js throws and error. Also tried to set up a castOption: resumeSavedSession to false but no luck...

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Thanks I'll keep looking in the documentation about how to do this properly or I'll ask the question directly if I'm at lost

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@sergioavazquez I have updated the plugin with a missing workflow to avoid loading a request more than once, and destroying Cast session properly. Please download the master branch and let me know if it worked for you. I tested on my local ReactJS env and seemed to work just fine.

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@rafa8626 you nailed it! It's working like a charm...

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Excellent news!! Thanks for testing this good team work

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