django-channels get the json post on connect

[Samuel Muiruri]

I have this in routing.py for django-channels

channel_routing = [

   # Wire up websocket channels to our consumers:

   route("websocket.connect", ws_connect),

   route("websocket.receive", ws_message),

]

and the ws_connect looks like this

@channel_session

def ws_connect(message, key):

    # Accept connection

    message.reply_channel.send({"accept": True})

and when the page loads this socket connection is made correctly

<script type="text/javascript">

// Note that the path doesn't matter for routing; any WebSocket

// connection gets bumped over to WebSocket consumers

socket = new WebSocket("ws://" + window.location.host + "/chat/");

socket.onmessage = function(response) {

   console.log(response.data);

}

socket.onopen = function() {

   socket.send({"test":"data"});

}

// Call onopen directly if socket is already open

if (socket.readyState == WebSocket.OPEN) socket.onopen();

</script>

I want to start testing if I can have a background process running from this, so I set a test json input to socket.send however I haven't found anything on the documentation, apologies if I missed it. How to access this info in ws_connect it should be in message same way there's request I believe.

[Ryan Nowakowski]

IIRC, that test message will be available in your ws_message function.