baseapp-comments 0.2.8

BaseApp Comments

BaseApp Comments

Reusable app to handle comments threads.

Whats missing

• DRF views and serializers

How to install:

This package requires to following packages to be installed:

• baseapp-core[graphql]
• baseapp-notifications
• baseapp-reactions

And install the package with pip install baseapp-comments.

If you want to develop, install using this other guide.

How to setup:

1 - Make sure to have GraphQL websocket enabled in your project

2 - Add baseapp_comments to your project's INSTALLED_APPS and run ./manage.py migrate as any other django model:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "baseapp_comments",
    # ...
]

3 - Add baseapp_comments.permissions.CommentsPermissionsBackend to the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS list in your django settings file.

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    # ...
    "baseapp_comments.permissions.CommentsPermissionsBackend",
    # ...
]

4 - Make sure to add the task routing for the notifications:

CELERY_TASK_ROUTES = {
    "baseapp_comments.notifications.send_reply_created_notification": {
        "exchange": "default",
        "routing_key": "default",
    },
    "baseapp_comments.notifications.send_comment_created_notification": {
        "exchange": "default",
        "routing_key": "default",
    }
}

5 - Expose CommentsMutations, CommentsQueries and CommentsSubscriptions in your GraphQL/graphene endpoint, like:

from baseapp_comments.graphql.mutations import CommentsMutations
from baseapp_comments.graphql.queries import CommentsQueries
from baseapp_comments.graphql.subscriptions import CommentsSubscriptions

class Query(graphene.ObjectType, CommentsQueries):
    pass

class Mutation(graphene.ObjectType, CommentsMutations):
    pass

class Subscription(graphene.ObjectType, CommentsSubscriptions):
    pass

schema = graphene.Schema(query=Query, mutation=Mutation, subscription=Subscription)

How to use

You can customize some settings, bellow are the default values:

BASEAPP_COMMENTS_CAN_ANONYMOUS_VIEW_COMMENTS = True
BASEAPP_COMMENTS_MAX_PINS_PER_THREAD = None
BASEAPP_COMMENTS_ENABLE_GRAPHQL_SUBSCRIPTIONS = True
BASEAPP_COMMENTS_ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS = True

You need to inherit CommentableModel in your model and make sure to add CommentsInterface to your ObjectType's interfaces like:

CommentableModel

from django.db import models
from baseapp_comments.models import CommentableModel

class MyModel(models.Model, CommentableModel):
    pass

This will add the following fields to your model:

• comments a reverse relation to Comment model
• comments_count a JSON field that stores the count of comments for the object like: {total: 5, main: 3, replies: 2, pinned: 1}
• is_comments_enabled a boolean fields that stores if comments are enabled for the object

Don't forget to run ./manage.py makemigrations and ./manage.py migrate after adding CommentableModel to your model.

CommentsInterface

CommentsInterface is a GraphQL interface that can be used to query for comments. It has the following fields:

• isCommentsEnabled return the active URLPath
• commentsCount return CommentsCount objectType with the following fields:
  • total
  • main
  • replies
  • pinned
• comments list of comments attached to this object

from baseapp_core.graphql import DjangoObjectType
from baseapp_comments.graphql import CommentsInterface


class MyModelObjectType(DjangoObjectType):
    class Meta:
        model = MyModel
        interfaces = (relay.Node, CommentsInterface)

Signals

There are some signals that handles stuff like updating comments count, notify users when a comment is created and send a GraphQL subscription when a comment is created, updated or deleted. You can find all signals in baseapp_comments.signals.

You could disconnect the signals and connect your own handlers if you want to customize the behavior.

import swapper
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from baseapp_comments.signals import notify_on_comment_created

Comment = swapper.load_model("baseapp_comments", "Comment")

post_save.disconnect(notify_on_comment_created, dispatch_uid="notify_on_comment_created")


def my_custom_notify_on_comment_created(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
    # your custom code here
    pass
post_save.connect(notify_on_comment_created, sender=Comment, dispatch_uid="notify_on_comment_created")

Permissions

In can inherit baseapp_comments.permissions.CommentsPermissionsBackend to customize the permissions.

from baseapp_comments.permissions import CommentsPermissionsBackend


class MyCommentsPermissionsBackend(CommentsPermissionsBackend):
    def has_perm(self, user_obj, perm, obj=None):
        if perm == "baseapp_comments.add_comment_with_profile":
            return obj.owner_id == user.id  # only the profile's owner can use

        return super().has_perm(user_obj, perm, obj)

And add it to your AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS list in your django settings file.

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    # ...
    "myapp.permissions.MyCommentsPermissionsBackend",
    # ...
]

How to develop

General development instructions can be found in main README.