def group(self):
"""
get a django channels Group consisting of all the
reply_channels in the QuerySet
"""
self._channel_names = self.values_list('channel_name', flat=True)
if not self._channel_names:
empty_group = Group('emptyname')
empty_group.empty = True
return empty_group
# group name is the hash of all the channel_names
combined_names = b''.join(
i.encode('utf-8', errors='replace') for i in self._channel_names)
group_id = md5(combined_names).hexdigest()
combined_group = Group(name=group_id)
for channel_name in self._channel_names:
if channel_name.startswith('bot-'):
continue
combined_group.add(Channel(channel_name))
return combined_group
