Push live updates to client through Django Channels & Websockets

Question

I\'m trying to make a page which shows live-updating data to the client. The rest of the site is built with Django, so I\'m trying to use Channels for this.

The data I

Answer 1

Add user to django channels Group on ws_connect

from channels.auth import channel_session_user_from_http
from channels import Group

@channel_session_user_from_http
def ws_connect(message, **kwargs):
    http_user = message.user
    if not http_user.is_anonymous:
        message.reply_channel.send({'accept': True})
        Group('user-'+str(http_user.id)).add(message.reply_channel)`

send any new updates data to the user by

Group('user-1').send({'text': 'hello user 1'})
Group('user-2').send({'text': 'hello user 2'})