notifications-plugin 0.1.2

A django app to create simple notifications

Notifications Plugin

Introduction

A Django app to create notifications

Requirements

• Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8

• Django 2.2, 3.0

Installation

Install the app using pip

$ pip install notifications-plugin

or get it from source

$ git clone https://github.com/adityacp/notifications_plugin.git
$ cd notifications_plugin
$ python setup.py sdist
$ pip install dist/notifications_plugin*

Add the django app to your Project

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    ...
    'notifications_plugin',
    ...
)

To run schema migration, execute python manage.py makemigrations notifications_plugin and then run python manage.py migrate.

Creating Notifications

QuerySet methods

• Create Single notification message

  To add an notification message, simply import the NotificationMessage model from the notifications_plugin app.

  from notifications_plugin.models import NotificationMessage
  
  NotificationMessage.objects.add_single_message(creator_id, summary, description, msg_type)

  Arguments:

  • creator_id: An user’s id who is creating the message.

  • summary: A summary of the message

  • description: A description of the actual message

  • msg_type: Message Type i.e. whether it is informational message, danger message, success message or warning message. Default is the informational message (info).

    Available message types are info, danger, warning, success.

• Create Bulk notification Message

  NotificationMessage.objects.add_bulk_messages(messages)

  Arguments:

  • messsages: A list of dictionaries containing the following values. Sample messages list is as follows

    messages = [{"creator_id" : 1, "summary" : "test", "description": "test description", "message_type": "info"}]

• Create notifications

  • To create notification for multiple receivers with single message

    from notifications_plugin.models import Notification
    
    Notification.objects.add_bulk_user_notifications(receiver_ids, msg_id)

    Arguments:

    • receiver_ids: A list of receiver ids to whom the notification is to be sent

    • msg_id: A NotificationMessage id which will be sent to the receivers

  • To create notification for single receiver with multiple messages

    Notification.objects.add_bulk_msg_notifications(receiver_id, msg_ids)

  • To create notification for single receiver with single message

    Notification.objects.add_single_notification(receiver_id, msg_id)

• Getting and Marking Notifications

  • To mark notifications for multiple receivers with single message

    Notification.objects.mark_bulk_user_notifications(receiver_ids, msg_uuid, read)

    Arguments:

    • receiver_ids: A list of receiver ids to whose notification is to be marked

    • msg_id: A NotificationMessage uuid(unique identifier) whose message is supposed to be marked. To get the uuid of the message just type message.uid

    • read: Indicates if the message for the particular receiver is marked or not. Default is False. To mark as read, make it True.

  • To mark notifications for single receiver with multiple messages

    Notification.objects.mark_bulk_msg_notifications(receiver_id, msg_uuids, read)

  • To mark notification for single receiver with single message

    Notification.objects.mark_single_notification(receiver_id, msg_uuid, read)

  • To get a particular receiver’s all notifications

    Notification.objects.get_receiver_notifications(receiver_id)

  • To get unread notifications of a particular receiver

    Notification.objects.get_unread_receiver_notifications(receiver_id)

  • To get read notifications of a particular receiver

    Notification.objects.get_read_receiver_notifications(receiver_id)

  • To get multiple receivers notifications

    Notification.objects.get_multiple_user_notifications(receiver_ids)

  • To get notifications by a specific message

    Notification.objects.get_notifications_by_msg(msg_uuid)

Issues

If you find any issues or want a specific functionality, please file a issue here: https://github.com/adityacp/notifications_plugin/issues/new/choose