The docs do mention this in a big callout at the top of the Channel Layers
page :) http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/channel_layers.html

Andrew

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Ahmed Magdy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Aha thanks for making it clear, I will read more about redis then.
> Shouldn't the docs mention that though?
>
> On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 6:47:47 AM UTC+2, Andrew Godwin wrote:
>>
>> No, there is no in-memory channel layer any more, only Redis is available
>> at the moment. You must put something into the settings in order to make it
>> function.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:42 PM, Ahmed Magdy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought it uses in memory channel layer by default if it's empty? I
>>> didn't try setting a value, because only redis was available in v2.0.0 and
>>> I don't like using stuff I don't understand.
>>>
>>> On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 6:08:02 AM UTC+2, Andrew Godwin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It needs to contain a value to work - what value were you trying that
>>>> was not empty?
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Ahmed Magdy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I tried not having CHANNEL_LAYERS or setting it to {}
>>>>> same exception
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 3:36:43 AM UTC+2, Andrew Godwin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have a CHANNEL_LAYERS setting in your settings file? If so,
>>>>>> what is it set to?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Ahmed Magdy <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's what I did after reading the documentation here's how my
>>>>>>> channels files look like
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # settings.py
>>>>>>> # ...
>>>>>>> ASGI_APPLICATION = 'djangoChannels.routing.application'
>>>>>>> # ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # routing.py
>>>>>>> from django.conf.urls import url
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter
>>>>>>> from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> from .consumers import ChatConsumer
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
>>>>>>>    # Empty for now (http->django views is added by default)
>>>>>>>    'websocket': AuthMiddlewareStack(
>>>>>>>        URLRouter([
>>>>>>>            url('^sessions/$', ChatConsumer)
>>>>>>>        ])
>>>>>>>    )
>>>>>>> })
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> # consumers.py
>>>>>>> from asgiref.sync import AsyncToSync
>>>>>>> from channels.generic.websocket import WebsocketConsumer
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> class ChatConsumer(WebsocketConsumer):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     def connect(self):
>>>>>>>        AsyncToSync(self.channel_layer.group_add)("chat", self
>>>>>>> .channel_name)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     def disconnect(self):
>>>>>>>        AsyncToSync(self.channel_layer.group_discard)("chat", self
>>>>>>> .channel_name)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After connecting with JS websocket to
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ws://127.0.0.1:8000/sessions/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Raises an exception
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Performing system checks...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
>>>>>>>> February 03, 2018 - 03:14:29
>>>>>>>> Django version 2.0.2, using settings 'djangoChannels.settings'
>>>>>>>> Starting ASGI/Channels development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
>>>>>>>> Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
>>>>>>>> 2018-02-03 03:14:29,799 - INFO - server - HTTP/2 support not
>>>>>>>> enabled (install the http2 and tls Twisted extras)
>>>>>>>> 2018-02-03 03:14:29,800 - INFO - server - Listening on endpoint
>>>>>>>> tcp:port=8000:interface=127.0.0.1
>>>>>>>> [2018/02/03 03:14:32] WebSocket HANDSHAKING /sessions/ [
>>>>>>>> 127.0.0.1:8631]
>>>>>>>> ERROR:root:Exception inside application: 'NoneType' object has no
>>>>>>>> attribute 'group_add'
>>>>>>>>   File "c:\python35\Lib\asyncio\tasks.py", line 241, in _step
>>>>>>>>     result = coro.throw(exc)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\channels\consumer.py",
>>>>>>>> line 53, in __call__
>>>>>>>>     await await_many_dispatch([receive], self.dispatch)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\channels\utils.py",
>>>>>>>> line 48, in await_many_dispatch
>>>>>>>>     await dispatch(result)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\asgiref\sync.py",
>>>>>>>> line 84, in inner
>>>>>>>>     return await async_func(*args, **kwargs)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\asgiref\sync.py",
>>>>>>>> line 67, in __call__
>>>>>>>>     return await asyncio.wait_for(future, timeout=None)
>>>>>>>>   File "c:\python35\Lib\asyncio\tasks.py", line 367, in wait_for
>>>>>>>>     return (yield from fut)
>>>>>>>>   File "c:\python35\Lib\asyncio\futures.py", line 358, in __iter__
>>>>>>>>     yield self  # This tells Task to wait for completion.
>>>>>>>>   File "c:\python35\Lib\asyncio\tasks.py", line 290, in _wakeup
>>>>>>>>     future.result()
>>>>>>>>   File "c:\python35\Lib\asyncio\futures.py", line 274, in result
>>>>>>>>     raise self._exception
>>>>>>>>   File "c:\python35\Lib\concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 55, in
>>>>>>>> run
>>>>>>>>     result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\asgiref\sync.py",
>>>>>>>> line 76, in thread_handler
>>>>>>>>     raise e
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\asgiref\sync.py",
>>>>>>>> line 74, in thread_handler
>>>>>>>>     self.func(*args, **kwargs)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\channels\consumer.py",
>>>>>>>> line 93, in dispatch
>>>>>>>>     handler(message)
>>>>>>>>   File 
>>>>>>>> "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\lib\site-packages\channels\generic\websocket.py",
>>>>>>>> line 19, in websocket_connect
>>>>>>>>     self.connect()
>>>>>>>>   File "D:\Programming\DjangoWebsite\HUWebsite\husite\djangoChannel
>>>>>>>> s\djangoChannels\consumers.py", line 8, in connect
>>>>>>>>     AsyncToSync(self.channel_layer.group_add)("chat",
>>>>>>>> self.channel_name)
>>>>>>>>   'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group_add'
>>>>>>>> [2018/02/03 03:14:32] WebSocket DISCONNECT /sessions/ [
>>>>>>>> 127.0.0.1:8631]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 7:37:36 PM UTC+2, Andrew Godwin wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Ahmed,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In the new release channel layers are optional - if you don't
>>>>>>>> configure them they will indeed come through as None. The settings 
>>>>>>>> format
>>>>>>>> changed slightly too - you can read more here:
>>>>>>>> http://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/channel_layers.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:31 AM, Ahmed Magdy <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm relatively new to channels and was using Channels v1.x.x
>>>>>>>>> groups easily, but after v2.0.0 update and reading the documentation
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> # This example uses WebSocket consumer, which is synchronous, and so
>>>>>>>>> # needs the async channel layer functions to be converted.
>>>>>>>>> from asgiref.sync import AsyncToSync
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> class ChatConsumer(WebsocketConsumer):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     def connect(self):
>>>>>>>>>         AsyncToSync(self.channel_layer.group_add)("chat", 
>>>>>>>>> self.channel_name)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     def disconnect(self):
>>>>>>>>>         AsyncToSync(self.channel_layer.group_discard)("chat", 
>>>>>>>>> self.channel_name)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Enter code here...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> channel_layer, channel_name are always NoneType and exception
>>>>>>>>> occurs.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is that because I didn't configure channel layers? But in the old
>>>>>>>>> version I also used the in memory type and Groups were working well.
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