django-notify 1.1.2

Adding a notification message

The middleware attaches an instance of a temporary storage class called notifications to your request. To add a notification, call:

request.notifications.add('Hello world.')

Some other methods provide a standard way to add notifications with commonly used tags (which are usually represented as HTML classes for the message):

request.notifications.debug('%s SQL statements were executed.' % count)
request.notifications.success('Profile details updated.')
request.notifications.warning('Your account expires in three days.')
request.notifications.error('Document deleted.')

Displaying notification messages

In your template, use something like:

{% if notifications %}
<ul class="messages">
        {% for message in notifications %}
        <li{% if message.tags %} class="{{ message.tags }}"{% endif %}>{{ message }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}

If you’re using the context processor, your template should be rendered with a RequestContext. Otherwise, ensure request.notifications is available to the template context.

Expiration of notification messages

The notifications are marked to be cleared when the storage instance is iterated (and cleared when the response is processed).

To avoid the notifications being cleared, you can set request.notifications.used = False after iterating.

Notification Levels

The NOTIFICATIONS_LEVEL setting can be used to change the minimum recorded level. Attempts to add notifications of a level less than this will be ignored.

The built-in levels (which can be imported from django_notify directly) are:

INFO is the default minimum recorded level. It is also the default level of the add method.

The minimum recorded level can also be set per request by changing the level attribute of the notifications storage instance:

import django_notify

# Change the notifications level to ensure the debug message is added.
request.notifications.level = django_notify.DEBUG
request.notifications.debug('Test notification...')

# Set the notifications level back to default.
request.notifications.level = None

Custom Tags

To provide custom tags for notification levels (either built in levels or custom ones), set the NOTIFICATIONS_TAGS setting to a dictionary containing the levels you wish to change. As this extends the default tags, you only need to provide tags for the levels you wish to override:

import django_notify
NOTIFICATIONS_TAGS = {
    django_notify.INFO: 'info',
    50: 'critical',
}

For more direct control over message tags, you can optionally provide a string containing extra tags to any of the add methods:

request.notifications.add('Over 9000!', extra_tags='dragonball')
request.notifications.error('Email box full', extra_tags='email')

Extra tags are added before any default tag for that level (space separated).