Sending messages to groups in Django Channels 2

Question

I am completely stuck in that I cannot get group messaging to work with Channels 2! I have followed all tutorials and docs that I could find, but alas I haven\'t found what

Answer 1

I had a similar issue to this for a while too, though the reason my group_send was not working was because a websocket was not actually connected.

When testing the dev server reloaded which disconnected the socket, so subsequent calls were not getting run by the consumer. Refreshing the frontend reconnected the socket and group_send started working.

Though this doesn't directly address the question I hope this might help somebody.