Trying to call the "alert_receive" consumer method import json from channels.consumer import SyncConsumer from channels.exceptions import StopConsumer from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync from channels.layers import get_channel_layer
class ClientAlertPtrConsumer(SyncConsumer): def websocket_connect(self, event): async_to_sync(self.channel_layer.group_add)("AlertReceivers", self. channel_name) self.send({ "type": "websocket.accept", }) def websocket_receive(self, event): content = json.dumps("received") async_to_sync(self.channel_layer.group_send)("AlertReceivers", { "type":"alert.receive"}) def websocket_disconnect(self, event): async_to_sync(self.channel_layer.group_discard)("AlertReceivers", self.channel_name) raise StopConsumer def alert_receive(self, event): # Get a message on the alert.receive type content = json.dumps("Group send working") self.send({ "type":"websocket.send", # then send a message out on websocket protocol to whatever the 'self' channel is. "text":content, }) from *outside this consumer class *using the approach in documentation like this from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync from channels.layers import get_channel_layer channel_layer = get_channel_layer() async_to_sync(channel_layer.group_send)("AlertReceivers", {'type':"alert.receive"}) and getting the following traceback having to do with the concurrent.futures module: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.5/code.py", line 91, in runcode exec(code, self.locals) File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/asgiref/sync.py", line 49, in __call__ return call_result.result() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 398, in result return self.__get_result() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 357, in __get_result raise self._exception File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/asgiref/sync.py", line 63, in main_wrap result = await self.awaitable(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/channels_redis/core.py", line 313, in group_send pool = await self.connection(self.consistent_hash(group)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/channels_redis/core.py", line 377, in connection self.pools[index] = await aioredis.create_redis_pool(**self.hosts[index]) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/aioredis/commands/__init__.py", line 197, in create_redis_pool loop=loop) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/aioredis/pool.py", line 59, in create_pool await pool.wait_closed() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/aioredis/pool.py", line 177, in wait_closed await asyncio.shield(self._close_waiter, loop=self._loop) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 361, in __iter__ yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion. RuntimeError: Task <Task pending coro=<AsyncToSync.main_wrap() running at /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/asgiref/sync.py:63> cb=[_run_until_complete_cb() at /usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/base_events.py:164]> got Future <Future pending> attached to a different loop Note that the async_to_sync(channel_layer.group_send)("AlertReceivers", {'type': "alert.receive"}) *within the websocket_receive method of the consumer class *works well*, *sending the event out onto redis-based channel layers and then sending json encoded "Group send working" WS message to client. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/8aa00799-ffe1-4eba-b991-cd8d04da38d3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.