Asynchronous downloads scaffolding for Django projects.
- TODO: describe cache mechanism
- TODO: how to customise the front end
# Without websocket support
pip install django-async-downloads
# With Websocket support
pip install django-async-downloads[ws]
Note at the present time on Windows, if you require websocket support,
you will need "Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0" installed (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/)
due to hiredis
from the dependency chain (channels_redis
-> aioredis-py
-> hiredis
).
Add to your INSTALLED_APPS
:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
"async_downloads",
]
Add to your project's url_patterns
:
path("async_downloads/", include("async_downloads.urls"))
Add the CSS:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'css/async_downloads.css' %}" />
Add the JS:
<script src="{% static "js/async_downloads.js" %}" id="async-downloads-script"
data-url="{% url 'async_downloads:ajax_update' %}"
data-clear-url="{% url 'async_downloads:ajax_clear_download' %}"></script>
Include the download centre nav-menu:
<ul class="navbar-nav">
...
{% include 'async_downloads/download_centre.html' %}
...
Package can be used with websockets to provide asynchronous communication between frontend and backend. If package will be used in websockets mode additional settings must be applied.
-
Inside common settings
WS_MODE
must be toggled on.ASYNC_DOWNLOADS_WS_MODE = True
-
Application needs to be configured as a
ASGI
and proper WS urls need to be configured:# ws/urls.py from async_downloads.ws_consumers import DownloadsConsumer urlpatterns += [ re_path(r"ws/downloads/(?P<username>[\w.]+)/$", DownloadsConsumer.as_asgi()), ]
# example asgi.py from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter import ws.urls application = ProtocolTypeRouter( { "http": get_asgi_application(), "websocket": AuthMiddlewareStack(URLRouter(ws.urls.urlpatterns)), } )
-
Change in application template async-downloads section to use WS js version.
# example: FULL_WS_URL = "http://app.com/ws/downloads/" <script src="{% static "js/ws_async_downloads.js" %}" id="async-downloads-script" data-url="{{ FULL_WS_URL }}" </script>
data-url
must be an absolute URL because this is required for a WebSocket connection, and it must include the protocol because thews_async_downloads.js
script will inspect it to determine which WebSockets protocol to use -ws
ifhttp
orwss
ifhttps
.
-
Configure
CHANNEL_LAYERS
inside common settings. Example config:CHANNEL_LAYERS = { "default": { "BACKEND": "channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer", "CONFIG": { "hosts": [("127.0.0.1", 6379)], }, }, }
TODO: using the JS
Initialise a download by preparing the cache entries. Returns a tuple of keys, the collection key and specific download key. You would typically want to call this within the web process, and pass the download key (and possibly the collection key) into the asynchronous function call so that the status can be updated.
Arguments:
user
: the unique identifier for a collection of downloads - this will typically be a user object but can be user PK or username.filename
: the name of the file being downloaded (does not need to be unique)name
: (optional) the name to associate with this download - defaults tofilename
The asynchronous process should call this function when the iterable or file is prepared in order to save the output.
Arguments:
download_key
: the cache key of this particular downloaditerable
: (optional) an iterable of data rows to be writtenfile
: (optional) a BytesIO object
The asynchronous process can call this function to calculate and update the completion percentage. (download_key, total, cur, resolution=10): Arguments:
download_key
: the cache key of this particular downloadtotal
: total to compare current progress againstcur
: current progress indexresolution
: resolution of the percentage calculation (make smaller for fewer updates, larger for more precision); default is10
, meaning it will increase in steps of 10%. The value is capped between1
and100
.
The asynchronous process can call this function to directly set the completion percentage.
Arguments:
download_key
: the cache key of this particular downloadpercentage
: an number between 0 and 100 (inclusive)
There can be a build up of expired download keys in a collection so it can be worth periodically
removing them using this function. (Note that the collection cache itself will expire if not touched
for ASYNC_DOWNLOADS_TIMEOUT
seconds, so it may not be critical to use this.)
Arguments:
collection_key
: the cache key of a collection of downloads
The asynchronous process can call this function to set an error message on the download.
Arguments:
download_key
: the cache key of this particular downloaderror
: the error message to set
Delete expired downloads (where the download no longer exists in the cache). This is a clean up operation to prevent downloads that weren't manually deleted from building up, and should be run periodically to avoid bloating the server with files.
This is best setup as a periodic task in your project, which can be done by adding the following
to your project's celery.py
:
app.conf.beat_schedule = {
"async_downloads_cleanup": {
"task": "async_downloads.tasks.cleanup_expired_downloads",
"schedule": crontab(hour=0, minute=0, day_of_week=1)
}
}
Default: 60 * 60 * 24
(1 day)
This is the cache timeout used for cache operations.
Default: "async_downloads/downloads.html"
This is the template that will be used by the ajax_update
view. You can override it by creating
a template in <project>/templates/async_downloads/downloads.html
, or else putting the template
wherever you choose and changing this setting.
Default: "downloads"
The parent directory for all downloads in the MEDIA_ROOT
directory.
Default: "async_downloads/{}"
The collection key keeps track of the cache keys of a grouped collection of downloads. In the
unlikely event that this key format clashes with something in your project, you can change it.
The expectation is for the string to have a user primary key inserted with str.format
, so {}
is required to be present.
Default: "downloads"
The channel name for all shared information about download in channels cache layer.
If this settings will be added default cache will be changed into new with provided name.
Default: False
If this flag will be set to True
package will be set to work with WebSockets in WS_MODE.
Default: None
Additional CSS class can be added to download-content
div.