going to answer my own question for the sake of anyone who runs into things
while learning python:
I needed channel redis that can pass messages from one process to another.
redis is just a key/value storage server that you can install in ubuntu.
On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 8:22:11 PM UTC-8, Jeremy Wai wrote:
>
> I got a heroku server running on one web processing, in the routing.py I
> have
>
> application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
> 'websocket': backEndConsumer,
> 'http': frontEndConsumer,
> })
>
> my frontEndConsumer handles the http webhook requests and my
> backEndConsumer handles all my websocket requests.
>
> When a device with the correct address tries to talk to my websocket, it
> will go to backEndConsumer and run the websocket_connect()
> Then on my frontEndconsumer, It will get a http_request().
>
> I want this http_request() to trigger the backEndConsumer to do a
> websocket_send(). I can't seem to get that to work.
>
> webhook.py
> scope = None
> import myapp.consumers
>
> class frontEndConsumer(AsyncHttpConsumer):
> async def http_request(self, request):
>
> myapp.consumers.backEndConsumer.frontSend(myapp.consumers.scope)
> await self.send_response(200, b"finished",
> headers=[(b"Content-Type", b"text/plain"),])
>
> consumers.py
>
> class backEndConsumer(AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer):
> async def websocket_connect(self, type):
> await self.accept()
> global scope
> scope = self # doing this to pass the object to
> frontEndConsumer
> async def frontSend(self):
> await self.send("Hello world!")
>
> I keep getting this error
> myapp.consumers.backEndConsumer.frontSend()
> frontSend() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'
> I know I am doing something wrong, but I am not sure how to do what I want.
>
>
>
>
>
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