To create a room for every user or not?

Question

My application requires that guest/participants do not need to login. They only enter names. Also the meetings are not scheduled. It's on walk in basis where host waits for the guests. In my case, I will have hundreds and eventually thousands of hosts. For every host, do I need to create a new room and allocate it to only that user? Is that how the rooms supposed to used or there is any other data structure such as groups which I can use? Are there limitations to how many rooms one application can create?

Answer 1

Same answer, you can do both
I wouldn't create a room per customer, but you could potentially create one room per agent. You'll need to build your own application that would allow your to select the correct agent given the customer needs, but you need to do that anyway.
Once you know the agent, again, having the agent always enter his/her room and wait for customers, or have the agent enter a random room and then pair it with a customer is pretty much the same.
Fixed rooms will save you to manage room creation/deletion (you will still need to create a room when a new agent joins a company and remove it when he leaves, but that can be part of the normal management of agents).
One feature that we are planning to add is rooms that "autodelete" when the session terminate, so you can easily create a random room on the fly and don't have to remeber to cleanup.
But basically I think what you do depends on a couple of workflows :
1) A host (teacher, agent, advisor) has routinely scheduled sessions with customers (or students). In this case it may be easier to have a fixed room for the host and direct the guests to that room for the scheduled session (again, using external authentication you can guarantee that only users registered or authorized for that session can join that room)
2) Two users (host/guest, agent/customer, two random users, etc.) wants to initiate an ad-hoc conversation. In this case it may be easier to create a room on the fly (or pick a room from a pool of existing rooms) and direct both users to that room.
As I said in the previous post the serverIntegration modules are your friends here: they have all the methods to create/delete rooms, create authentication tokens and in general manage your account.