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Django 3 By Example

You're reading from   Django 3 By Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981952
Length 568 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Sharing Content on Your Website 6. Tracking User Actions 7. Building an Online Shop 8. Managing Payments and Orders 9. Extending Your Shop 10. Building an E-Learning Platform 11. Rendering and Caching Content 12. Building an API 13. Building a Chat Server 14. Going Live 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Routing

You need to define a URL to route connections to the ChatConsumer consumer you have implemented. Channels provides routing classes that allow you to combine and stack consumers to dispatch based on what the connection is. You can think of them as the URL routing system of Django for asynchronous applications.

Create a new file inside the chat application directory and name it routing.py. Add the following code to it:

from django.urls import re_path
from . import consumers
websocket_urlpatterns = [
    re_path(r'ws/chat/room/(?P<course_id>\d+)/$', consumers.ChatConsumer),
]

In this code, you map a URL pattern with the ChatConsumer class that you defined in the chat/consumers.py file. You use Django's re_path to define the path with regular expressions. The URL includes an integer parameter called course_id. This parameter will be available in the scope of the consumer and will allow you to identify the course chat room that the...

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