How do I transmit any changes to databases(i.e. creates and updates pertaining to a particular user) using Django Channels?

[Alexis Candelaria]

My goal is to send send any database updates to the relevant users. I was thinking of utilizing the views of the post and patch requests to do this but am not sure if there is better or more documented way. 

[Andrew Godwin]

Hi Alexis,

You'll need to do some work yourself - hook into database changes (either via signals or overriding the save method) to send change notifications to a different Group for each user (maybe use group names like "user-123213", where the number is their ID).

Then, when someone connects via a socket or long-poll, add their consumer to the group and listen for the change message. You can see some docs on this here: http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/channel_layers.html and an example of sending messages to groups (albeit from another consumer rather than a save method) here: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels-examples/tree/master/multichat

Andrew

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Alexis Candelaria <alexisca...@gmail.com> wrote:

My goal is to send send any database updates to the relevant users. I was thinking of utilizing the views of the post and patch requests to do this but am not sure if there is better or more documented way. 

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