Make Django REST framework and Django Channels play nicely

Question

I want to make the Django REST Framework work with web sockets and came across Django Channels. Can I build Channels on top of the REST Framework?

I read here that it is WIP, however I was wondering if there is an easy 'light' way to tie the two together. Any advice is appreciated, I'm still rather new to Django.

Answer 1

Roy van der Valk - have you had any luck so far?

I've had success launching our platform which uses traditional Django views, Django-Rest-Framework views and channels 'consumers'.

There is a guncorn/wsgi substitute called Daphne - it will mitigate the request itself (wherever http/websocket etc..) to it's correct response handler. It uses a separate request handler called - asgi.

The trick was in crafting the django application level urls to dispatch the 'http.request' channel to the correct urls configuration which handled our traditional Django and Django-Rest-Framework views.

The rest of the asgi channels had 'views' or channels created to handle them appropriately.

Let me know if this is enough to get you moving in the right direction. I can provide you with links/details if you provide me with specific problems.