Reverse for Django Channels

[Archmonger]

Currently, it is a bit disjointed that Django Core has reverse capabilities but channels does not for websockets.

Perhaps it's worth considering a light wrapper around Django Reverse, that probes ASGI_APPLICATION["websocket"] URLs?

There seems to be an issue from 2018 about this. This discussion is to track whether reverse is feasible with the latest versions of Channels.

[carltongibson]

Hi @Archmonger -- I'm not sure how feasible it is. I think it needs someone to sit down and derive a PoC, but solving the nested ASGI app issue is likely intractable. 🤔

[Archmonger]

My immediate thought is optionally allowing a dotted path to a central websocket urlpatterns to be defined in settings.py.

Would fit Django design patterns, and only be required for certain features such as reverse or resolve.