If I'm not using a context for a websocket, how would I manually close it? When I try running conn.close() I get an event loop is closed error:
from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync
import websockets
# connect -- works OK
conn = async_to_sync(websockets.connect)("ws://localhost:8000/ws/registration/123/")
# send message -- works OK
async_to_sync(conn.send)("hello")
# disconnect -- doesn't work
async_to_sync(conn.close)()
You can use websocket-client library, it's already sync and pretty straightforward.
Install
pip install websocket-client
Usage
from websocket import create_connection
ws = create_connection(someWsUrl) # open socket
ws.send(someMessage) # send to socket
ws.recv(nBytes) # receive from socket
ws.close() # close socket