Django Channels understanding

[chinmay...@gmail.com]

I created a Consumer class with AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer

and initialized a <groups> variable with an array ['test'];

such that "test" becomes one of the groups(or broadcast room)

In the following code  

```

async def connect(self):

        await self.channel_layer.group_add(

            group='test',

            channel=self.channel_name

        )

        print("THE CHANNEL NAME IS ------------> ", self.channel_name)

        await self.accept()

```

My query is what exactly is self.channel_name and is it just a convention and I should be bothered by it.

Because when I declare (following is the code for same) I don't pass any channel_name 

```

settings.CHANNEL_LAYERS = TEST_CHANNEL_LAYERS

        communicator = WebsocketCommunicator(

            application=application,

            path='/sepsisDynamic/'

        )

        connected, _ = await communicator.connect()

        message = {

            'type': 'echo.message',

            'data': 'This is a test message.',

        }

        channel_layer = get_channel_layer()

        await channel_layer.group_send('test', message=message)

```

I believe it's built-in functionality but I am curious what exactly it does.