Channels chat consumer behaves differently in prodcution vs development

[Adam Simon]

I am using channels 2.x (along with nginx, daphne, redis and gunicorn)

In the local console I can see the user data I added in the chat consumer but not in my production environment

(in production everything else works, but the user is undefined. Note: the user is logged in.

Does anyone have any idea why that might be?

I followed the doc tutorial and the only thing i added was the line commented below

class ChatConsumer(WebsocketConsumer):

def chat_message(self, event):


    message = event['message'] # Send message to WebSocket


    self.send(text_data=json.dumps({

        'user': self.scope["user"].first_name, # <<< this is the line I added


        'message': message


    }))

Thanks,

Adam