So I read that the best option at the moment to implement websockets with Django is to use Tornado to run a websocket server.
Ok I get that.
But suppose I want to broadcast messages through the websocket server whenever something happens in my django app, for example: a device of the network suddenly goes offline, I want the network administrator to get notified istantly.
The natural process I can think of is to register a signal to the device model and whenever something interesting happen I must be able to tell Tornado: hey buddy, send a message in broadcast to all the admins connected.
But how would I do that?
Maybe with some kind of publish/subscribe mechanism? Celery?
Are there any articles about this stuff? It's pretty interesting but could not have found any real use cases explained properly yet.
Thanks!
After following the suggestion in the accepted answer i've come up with this: https://github.com/ninuxorg/nodeshot/commit/26373a3478d77a8cc8ac8bbd0c1c45694c26a779
The canonical method to communicate between processes would be a queue (or a pipe). I am not sure the queues in the multiprocessing package would work. If that does not work you can create a named pipe on the file system and communicate via the pipe using os.mkfifo.