actioncable-client 0.3.1.dev0

ActionCable Client for Python 3

ActionCable Client - A Python 3 client for Rails' Action Cable

This library handles the connections and subscriptions and monitors the connection. It removes the underlaying websocket layer.

Currently authentication is not managed by this library.

Credits

The project originate this that was stalled for more than 5 years.

ROADMAP

See Roadmap file

Get started

sudo pip3 install actioncable_client

Example usage

Setup the connection

Setup the connection to your Action Cable server.

from actioncable.connection import Connection

connection = Connection(url='wss://url_to_your_cable_server/cable', origin='https://url_to_your_cable_server')
connection.connect()

Subscribe to a channel

from actioncable.subscription import Subscription

subscription = Subscription(connection, identifier={'channel': 'YourChannelCLassName'})

def on_receive(message: dict):
  print('New message arrived!')
  print('Action: {} | Data: {}'.format(message['action'], message['data']))

subscription.on_receive(callback=on_receive)
subscription.create()

Send data

from actioncable.message import Message

message = Message(action='update_something', data={'something': 'important'})

subscription.send(message)

Unsubscribe

subscription.remove()

Close connection

connection.disconnect()

Development

Pull it up!

You need help?

Ask a question on StackOverflow with the tag 'actioncable-client'.

Contribution

Create pull requests on GitLab and help us to improve this package. There are some guidelines to follow:

• Follow the conventions
• Test all your implementations
• Document methods which aren't self-explaining
• try to follow the Roadmap

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