Does Django have a way to open a HTTP long poll connection?

Question

Leave the connection open, until an event occurs.

Answer 1

I think the best way to asynchronous communication with Django is have a node server listening in another port and use the api client of Socket.io. In this way, you aren't dependent of the support of the modules for django and is very simple: Node listening the request from client, convert this request in a post request and send to Django for the port which listen Django. Is the best way i think.

server.js

var http=require('http');
var server = http.createServer().listen(3000);
var io=require('socket.io').listen(server);
var querystring=require('querystring');

io.on('connection',function(socket){
   console.log('Connected to the client');
   socket.on('new comment',function(data){
      console.log('Web--->Node');
      var values=querystring.stringify(data);
      console.log(values);
      var options={
        hostname:'localhost',
        port:'8000',
        path:'/create-comment',
        method:'POST',
        headers:{
          'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
          'Content-Length':values.length
        }
      }
      var request=http.request(options, function(response){
        response.setEncoding('utf8');
        response.on('data',function(data){
          //Here return django
          console.log('Django-->Node');
          io.emit('return comment',data);
        });
      });

      request.write(values);
      request.end();
   });
});

views.py

def trysock(request):
    print 'In tryshok'
    comments=Comment.objects.all()
    dic = {
              'name': 'User',
              'form': CommentForm(),
              'comments': comments
          }

    return render(request,'index.html',dic)

@csrf_exempt
def create_comment(request):
    print 'Django<---Node'
    Comment.objects.create(
            user = request.POST['user'],
            comment = request.POST['comment']
        )

    response = JsonResponse({'user' : request.POST['user'], 'comment' : request.POST['comment']})
    print response.content
    return HttpResponse(response.content)

index.html

       

         

         {% csrf_token %}
         {{form.comment}}
         Comentar
         
 
       

       

         {% for comment in comments %}
         
{{ comment.user }} - {{ comment.comment}}
         {% endfor %}