How to use autobahn.ws with django?

Question

Need for websockets in my project. Found out crossplatform solution autobahn.ws but only tutorial for pure python is available. How to use autobahn as chat server in django project?

Answer 1

Simply add the following bit of code to the python script where you setup your websocket.

if __name__ == '__main__': #pragma nocover
    # Setup environ
    sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "myapp.settings")
    import django
    django.setup()

Now your code that creates a web socket can make use of django models and other features just as if it was a view.