I am trying to use web sockets to connect to Django Server/Channels. The HTTP views are working but the "ws" ( WebSocket ) connection is being rejected but ONLY on The REACT NATIVE APP. It’s working perfectly on React Web App
App.js For React Native Mobile App
var ws = React.useRef(
new WebSocket('ws://192.168.10.14:8000/ws/chat/Hello/'),
).current;
ws.onopen = () => {
setServerState('Connected to the server');
};
ws.onclose = e => {
setServerState('Disconnected. Check internet or server.');
};
ws.onerror = e => {
console.error(e);
setServerState(e.message);
};
ws.onmessage = e => {
serverMessagesList.push(e.data);
setServerMessages([...serverMessagesList]);
};
const submitMessage = () => {
ws.send(messageText);
setMessageText('');
setInputFieldEmpty(true);
};
And I get this error
ERROR {"isTrusted": false, "message": "Expected HTTP 101 response but was ‘403 Access denied’"}
But on Web
App.js For React Web App
let W3CWebSocket = require("websocket").w3cwebsocket;
var client = new W3CWebSocket("ws://192.168.10.14:8000/ws/chat/Hello/");
client.onerror = function (e) {
console.log("Connection Error: " + JSON.stringify(e));
console.log("Connection Error");
};
client.onopen = function () {
console.log("WebSocket Client Connected");
let data = JSON.stringify({ message: "Hello Socket!" });
client.send(data);
};
client.onclose = function () {
console.log("echo-protocol Client Closed");
};
client.onmessage = function (e) {
if (typeof e.data === "string") {
console.log("Received: '" + e.data + "'");
}
};
This Code is Working Perfectly
Now For the BackEnd
url.py
websocket_urlpatterns = [
re_path(r'ws/chat/(?P<room_name>w+)/$', consumer.ChatConsumer.as_asgi()),
]
Consumer.py
from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync
import json
# WebsocketConsumer is a class that we can inherit from to create a consumer
# A consumer is a class that handles WebSocket connections
# so that we can send and receive messages over the WebSocket
from channels.generic.websocket import WebsocketConsumer
class ChatConsumer(WebsocketConsumer):
def connect(self):
self.room_name = self.scope['url_route']['kwargs']['room_name']
self.room_group_name = 'chat_%s' % self.room_name
# Join room group
async_to_sync(self.channel_layer.group_add)(
self.room_group_name,
self.channel_name
)
self.accept()
def disconnect(self, close_code):
print(close_code)
# Leave room group
async_to_sync(self.channel_layer.group_discard)(
self.room_group_name,
self.channel_name
)
# Receive message from WebSocket
def receive(self, text_data):
text_data_json = json.loads(text_data)
message = text_data_json['message']
# Send message to room group
async_to_sync(self.channel_layer.group_send)(
self.room_group_name,
{
'type': 'chat_message',
'message': message
}
)
# Receive message from room group
def chat_message(self, event):
message = event['message']
# Send message to WebSocket
self.send(text_data=json.dumps({
'message': message
}))
Settings.py
ASGI_APPLICATION = "xyz.asgi.application"
CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': "channels.layers.InMemoryChannelLayer",
'hosts': [('localhost')],
}
}
asgi.py
"""
ASGI config for XYZ project.
"""
import Appointments
import os
from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter
from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack
from channels.security.websocket import AllowedHostsOriginValidator
from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'XYZ.settings')
django_asgi_app = get_asgi_application()
application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
"http": django_asgi_app,
"websocket": AllowedHostsOriginValidator(
AuthMiddlewareStack(
URLRouter(
Appointments.urls.websocket_urlpatterns
)
)
),
})
NOTE: The Same backEnd is working perfectly for React.js but giving the above-mentioned error for react native
2
Answers
1- React Native now has built-in support for WebSockets so no need to download any external library.
2-Removing the useRef will make It work
FROM
TO
It is a strange error that I have encountered once before
what worked for me was creating a different channels route for the mobile app
I don’t know why or how it worked as there is obviously no reason for the error nor the solution, but I hope that it works for you too!