How do I use a kombu Consumer together with sockjs-cyclone?

Question

I have various applications pushing messages into RabbitMQ and I want my sockjs-cyclone server to consume those messages and push them out to websocket clients. I'd like to use kombu as my RabbitMQ consumer library, but I can't figure out where to put my consumer and which parts of kombu's consumer interface I should use.

I am stuck on at least the following mental obstacles:

• I apparently need to consume from inside of my SockJSConnection so that I have access to self.sendMessage
• but I don't think I can use kombu's Connection.drain_events or SimpleQueue.get from anywhere in there because those are synchronous, blocking calls.

Is there a good way to integrate these two libraries?