Wagtail Websockets (WIP)

NOTE: This is a work-in-progress/pre-alpha package, and is mostly intended as a proof of concept.

Library to use django-channels within the context of Wagtail, with the first use-case being content-locking.

Requirements

1. Wagtail
2. Redis

Installation

1. In your Wagtail project, run:

pip install git+https://github.com/nypublicradio/wagtail-websockets.git

2. Add channels and content_locking to your INSTALLED_APPS above all the Wagtail imports:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
	...
        'channels',
	'content_locking', # Put this before wagtail apps
	...
        'wagtail.contrib.forms',
        'wagtail.contrib.redirects',
        ...
]

3. In your settings.py, add the following block:

# The line below references a file we will create in step 4:
ASGI_APPLICATION = '<YOURPROJECTNAME>.routing.application'

# This references a Redis server that you will need to run - the IP address and
# port should match your own server:
CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer',
        'CONFIG': {
            "hosts": [('127.0.0.1', 6379)],
        },
    },
}

4. Create a file called routing.py in your main project folder (e.g. the same folder with urls.py):

from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack
from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter
from django.urls import path

from content_locking import routing

application = ProtocolTypeRouter(
    {
        "websocket": AuthMiddlewareStack(
            URLRouter(routing.websocket_urlpatterns)
        )
    }
)