Create dedicated utility function for livekit API client initialization.
Centralizes configuration logic including custom session handling for SSL
verification. Improves code reuse across backend components that interact
with LiveKit.
Improves sendData reliability by preventing execution when the room
doesn’t exist.
This change addresses errors in staging and production where waiting
participants arrive before the room owner creates the room.
In remote environments, the LiveKit Python SDK doesn’t return a clean
Twirp error when the room is missing; instead of a proper "server unknown"
response, it raises a ContentTypeError, as if the LiveKit server weren’t
responding with a JSON payload, even though the code specifies otherwise.
While the issue cannot be reproduced locally,
this should help mitigate production errors.
Part of a broader effort to enhance data transmission reliability.
Importantly, a participant requesting entry to a room before the owner
arrives should not be considered an exception.
Invert operation sequence to first notify people in room before setting
participant in cache. Fixes infinite loop issue caused by 3s cache timeout
for waiting participants when requests take too long. Problem only occurred
when notifications were delayed, as faster notification delivery masked the
race condition.
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