Messages

Application provides the following message channels:

'new-message',
'new-user',
'online',
'offline',
'check-online',
'is-typing',
'read_message'

which are pretty self-explanatory.

Here is detailed explanation of what each channel does and data types:

new-message

Example from js:

{
    type: 'new-message',
    session_key: '{{ request.session.session_key }}',
    username: opponent_username,
    message: message
}

In the handler, a new Message object is created and the received packet along with the additional parameters is sene to the other user’s websocket (if present)

packet['created'] = msg.get_formatted_create_datetime()
packet['sender_name'] = msg.sender.username
packet['message_id'] = msg.id
new-user

Sends connected client list of currently active users.

# Get list list of current active users
users = [
    {'username': username, 'uuid': uuid_str}
    for username, uuid_str in ws_connections.values()
]

# Make packet with list of new users (sorted by username)
packet = {
    'type': 'users-changed',
    'value': sorted(users, key=lambda i: i['username'])
}
online

Informs the users when someone of other has gone online.

{‘type’: ‘gone-online’, ‘usernames’: [user_owner.username]}

offline

Distributes the users ‘gone offline’ status to everyone he has dialog with {‘type’: ‘gone-offline’, ‘username’: user_owner.username}

check-online

Same as online, except that it is used to provide the user that has gone online with information about who of his dialogs’ users is online.

is-typing

Shows message to opponent if the user is typing a message

{‘type’: ‘opponent-typing’, ‘username’: user_opponent}

read_message

Send message to user if the opponent has read the message Also sets the message.read to True.

{‘type’: ‘opponent-read-message’, ‘username’: user_opponent, ‘message_id’: message_id}