Does this work with private channels?

[IAlphaOmegaI]

Im trying to set a channel for each users to get notifications from in the form of user.{id}

// app/Broadcasting/UserNotificationsChannel
<?php

namespace App\Broadcasting;

use App\Models\User;

class UserNotificationsChannel
{
    /**
     * Create a new channel instance.
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Authenticate the user's access to the channel.
     */
    public function join(User $user, string $id): User|bool
    {
        logger()->info('Channel join attempt', ['user' => $user]);
        return $user->role === 'user' && (int) $user->id === (int) $id;
    }
}

// app/Events/UserNotification
<?php

namespace App\Events;

use Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\InteractsWithSockets;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PresenceChannel;
use Illuminate\Broadcasting\PrivateChannel;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Broadcasting\ShouldBroadcastNow;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;

class UserNotification implements ShouldBroadcastNow
{
    use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;

    /**
     * Create a new event instance.
     */
    public function __construct(public int $userId, public string $message)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Get the channels the event should broadcast on.
     *
     * @return array<int, Channel>
     */
    public function broadcastOn(): array
    {
        return [
            new PrivateChannel("user.{$this->userId}"),
        ];
    }

    public function broadcastAs(): string
    {
        return "user.{$this->userId}.notification";
    }

    /**
     * Get the broadcast driver for this event.
     */
    public function broadcastDriver(): string
    {
        return 'wave';
    }
}

// channels.php
<?php

use App\Broadcasting\OperatorChannel;
use App\Broadcasting\OperatorStatusChannel;
use App\Broadcasting\UserNotificationsChannel;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Broadcast;

Broadcast::channel('operator-status', OperatorStatusChannel::class);
Broadcast::channel('operator.{id}', OperatorChannel::class);
Broadcast::channel('user.{id}', UserNotificationsChannel::class);

Im also using reverb for socket connections which works great on it's own
but trying to call /broadcasting/auth on Wave client in the front-end app doesn't work as it expects Pusher's socket.id?

If I provide a custom auth endpoint than I don't know how to control if this user can join this sse channel as anything related to using Broadcasting will throw due to Pusher (from reverb) socket.id missing, what can I do?

#.env

# Wave
WAVE_DOMAIN={APP_URL}
WAVE_PATH=streaming

# Drivers
BROADCAST_DRIVER=redis
BROADCAST_CONNECTION=reverb
CACHE_DRIVER=redis
QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis
SESSION_DRIVER=redis

//config/broadcasting.php
  'connections' => [

        'redis' => [
            'driver' => 'redis',
            'connection' => 'default',
        ],

[slavarazum]

Hi @IAlphaOmegaI 👋

If understand you correctly, you are trying to use Reverb with Wave simultaneously, which is unsupported in Laravel broadcasting system.

If you want to broadcast user notifications, you can just install Wave an implement listening notifications from Laravel docs.