can not add event listener for handshake event to identify negotiated kex

[aditya81070]

can not add event listener for handshake event to identify negotiated kex

[steelbrain]

Hi @aditya81070

Thanks for writing in. For your usecase, you may be able to use the ssh.connection prop as you mentioned to listen for the handshake event.

Here's what it would look like

async function doSomething() {
  const ssh = new NodeSSH()
  const connectionPromise = ssh.connect(...)
  ssh.connection.on('...', ...);
  await connectionPromise
}
doSomething(...)

By deferring the await on connection promise until after the listener is added, you should be able to hook into the handshake and other events

[aditya81070]

Hey @steelbrain , thanks for the answer. 😂 Nicely used the async nature of javascript. If I am understanding it correctly, you have called the connect promise and put it into event loop and as you are not awaiting the next line will be executed and new event listener will be attached to same connection instance and after that you wait for fulfilment of the already fired promise. As connection creation will take time anyway so this listener will be attached.