Twisted HTTP interface now serves basic requests

channels/management/commands/runworker.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 
 from django.core.management import BaseCommand, CommandError
-
-from channels import DEFAULT_CHANNEL_BACKEND, channel_backends
+from channels import channel_backends, DEFAULT_CHANNEL_BACKEND
 from channels.log import setup_logger
+from channels.adapters import UrlConsumer
 from channels.worker import Worker
 
 
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
                 "You have a process-local channel backend configured, and so cannot run separate workers.\n"
                 "Configure a network-based backend in CHANNEL_BACKENDS to use this command."
             )
+        # Check a handler is registered for http reqs
+        if not channel_backend.registry.consumer_for_channel("http.request"):
+            # Register the default one
+            channel_backend.registry.add_consumer(UrlConsumer(), ["http.request"])
         # Launch a worker
         self.logger.info("Running worker against backend %s", channel_backend)
         # Optionally provide an output callback

channels/request.py

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ def encode_request(request):
         "get": dict(request.GET.lists()),
         "post": dict(request.POST.lists()),
         "cookies": request.COOKIES,
-        "meta": {k: v for k, v in request.META.items() if not k.startswith("wsgi")},
+        "headers": {
+            k[5:].lower(): v
+            for k, v in request.META.items()
+            if k.lower().startswith("http_")
+        },
         "path": request.path,
         "method": request.method,
         "reply_channel": request.reply_channel,
@@ -28,10 +32,20 @@ def decode_request(value):
     request.GET = CustomQueryDict(value['get'])
     request.POST = CustomQueryDict(value['post'])
     request.COOKIES = value['cookies']
-    request.META = value['meta']
     request.path = value['path']
     request.method = value['method']
     request.reply_channel = value['reply_channel']
+    # Channels requests are more high-level than the dumping ground that is
+    # META; re-combine back into it
+    request.META = {
+        "REQUEST_METHOD": value["method"],
+        "SERVER_NAME": value["server"][0],
+        "SERVER_PORT": value["server"][1],
+        "REMOTE_ADDR": value["client"][0],
+        "REMOTE_HOST": value["client"][0],  # Not the DNS name, hopefully fine.
+    }
+    for header, header_value in value.get("headers", {}).items():
+        request.META["HTTP_%s" % header.upper()] = header_value
     # We don't support non-/ script roots
     request.path_info = value['path']
     return request

docs/getting-started.rst

@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ The easiest way to do this is to use the ``runwsserver`` management command
 that ships with Django; just make sure you've installed the latest release
 of ``autobahn`` first::
 
-    pip install -U autobahn
+    pip install -U autobahn[twisted]
     python manage.py runwsserver
 
 Run that alongside ``runserver`` and you'll have two interface servers, a