django-instant 2.0.0

Websockets for Django with Centrifugo

Django Instant

Websockets for Django with Centrifugo.

• Push events into public or private channels.
• Handle the events in javascript client-side.

:sunny: Compatible: plug it on an existing Django instance without any modification in your main stack

Example

Push events in channels from anywhere in the code:

from instant.producers import publish

# Publish to a public channel
publish("public", "Message for everyone")

# Publish to a private channel with an event class set
publish("$users", "Message in logged in users channel", event_class="important")

# Publish to the staff channel with an extra json data payload
data = {"field1":"value1","field2":[1,2]}
publish("$staff", "Message for staff", data=data)

Quick start

Install the websockets server

Install the Centrifugo websockets server (see the detailled doc for more info). Download a release and generate a configuration file:

./centrifugo genconfig

The generated config.json file looks like this:

{
  "v3_use_offset": true,
  "token_hmac_secret_key": "46b38493-147e-4e3f-86e0-dc5ec54f5133",
  "admin_password": "ad0dff75-3131-4a02-8d64-9279b4f1c57b",
  "admin_secret": "583bc4b7-0fa5-4c4a-8566-16d3ce4ad401",
  "api_key": "aaaf202f-b5f8-4b34-bf88-f6c03a1ecda6",
  "allowed_origins": []
}

Configure Django settings

Use these parameters to update your Django's settings.py:

CENTRIFUGO_HOST = "http://localhost"
CENTRIFUGO_PORT = 8001
CENTRIFUGO_HMAC_KEY = "46b38493-147e-4e3f-86e0-dc5ec54f5133"
CENTRIFUGO_API_KEY = "aaaf202f-b5f8-4b34-bf88-f6c03a1ecda6"
SITE_NAME = "My site" # used in the messages to identify where they come from

Add "instant" to INSTALLED_APPS and update urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    # ...
    path("instant/", include("instant.urls")),
]

Create channels

Go into the admin to create channels

Avalailable endpoints

/instant/login/: takes a username and password as parameter and will login the user in Django and return a Centrifugo connection token

/instant/get_token/: get a Centrifugo connection token for a logged in user

/instant/subscribe/: get tokens for Centrifugo channels subscriptions (doc)