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Documentation and examples show how to listen from messages from Phoenix, but sending to phoenix is not documented, nor is it clear that this is even possible.
🐘 tbrowne@suprabonds:~$ ipy
Python 3.8.10 (default, Mar 15 2022, 12:22:08)
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IPython 8.0.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
In [1]: from realtime.connection import Socket
In [2]: import inspect
In [3]: def c1(payload):
...: print("C1", payload)
In [4]: URL = "ws://localhost:4000/socket/websocket"
In [5]: s = Socket(URL)
In [6]: s.connect() # this works fine as I can see it working on Phoenix side
2022-06-19 18:20:06,987:INFO - Connection was successful
In [7]: chan1 = s.set_channel("ping")
In [8]: chan1.join().on("UPDATE", c1)
Out[8]: <realtime.channel.Channel at 0x7f988a08f3d0>
In [9]: for a in inspect.getmembers(chan1):
...: print(a)
('__class__', <class 'realtime.channel.Channel'>)
('__delattr__', <method-wrapper '__delattr__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__dict__', {'socket': <realtime.connection.Socket object at 0x7f988a0bef70>, 'topic': 'ping', 'params': {}, 'listeners': [CallbackListener(event='UPDATE', callback=<function c1 at 0x7f988b056f70>)], 'joined': False})
('__dir__', <built-in method __dir__ of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__doc__', '\n `Channel` is an abstraction for a topic listener for an existing socket connection.\n Each Channel has its own topic and a list of event-callbacks that responds to messages.\n Should only be instantiated through `connection.Socket().set_chanel(topic)`\n Topic-Channel has a 1-many relationship.\n ')
('__eq__', <method-wrapper '__eq__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__format__', <built-in method __format__ of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__ge__', <method-wrapper '__ge__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__getattribute__', <method-wrapper '__getattribute__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__gt__', <method-wrapper '__gt__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__hash__', <method-wrapper '__hash__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__init__', <bound method Channel.__init__ of <realtime.channel.Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>>)
('__init_subclass__', <built-in method __init_subclass__ of type object at 0x2071780>)
('__le__', <method-wrapper '__le__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__lt__', <method-wrapper '__lt__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__module__', 'realtime.channel')
('__ne__', <method-wrapper '__ne__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__new__', <built-in method __new__ of type object at 0x9075a0>)
('__reduce__', <built-in method __reduce__ of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__reduce_ex__', <built-in method __reduce_ex__ of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__repr__', <method-wrapper '__repr__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__setattr__', <method-wrapper '__setattr__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__sizeof__', <built-in method __sizeof__ of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__str__', <method-wrapper '__str__' of Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>)
('__subclasshook__', <built-in method __subclasshook__ of type object at 0x2071780>)
('__weakref__', None)
('_join', <bound method Channel._join of <realtime.channel.Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>>)
('join', <bound method Channel.join of <realtime.channel.Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>>)
('joined', False)
('listeners', [CallbackListener(event='UPDATE', callback=<function c1 at 0x7f988b056f70>)])
('off', <bound method Channel.off of <realtime.channel.Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>>)
('on', <bound method Channel.on of <realtime.channel.Channel object at 0x7f988a08f3d0>>)
('params', {})
('socket', <realtime.connection.Socket object at 0x7f988a0bef70>)
('topic', 'ping')
As you can see Python inspect module does not show anything on channel chan1 that might look like a method for sending. Could you elucidate on if / how one can use this library for two-way comms? Thanks.