Django Dans Notifications

Description

A Django app to handle notifications.

Support for basic notifications, push notifications and email notifications.

Quick start

1. Install the package via pip:

pip install django-dans-notifications

2. Add "django_dans_notifications" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
	...
	'django_dans_notifications',
]

3. Include the URL configs in your project urls.py for the REST API endpoints like this:

path("api/notifications/", include("django_dans_notifications.urls")),

4. Run python manage.py migrate to update your database schema.

5. Use the API endpoints, in code or your Django admin portal.

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• Django 3.1 or higher
• Django Rest Framework
  • NOTE: not only must you have this installed, you must have set DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES and DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS in your settings.py to work with the APIs properly. An example config would be:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    "DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS": "rest_framework.pagination.PageNumberPagination",
    "PAGE_SIZE": 20,
    "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": (
        "rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication",
    ),
}

Available Settings

Currently all available settings are optional:

• TEAM_NAME - Default team name to use for emails, can be added to message context manually as well still.
• IN_TEST - Whether running in tests or not. Used to determine whether to actually send email.

Add these to your settings.py file to customize the app's behavior like so:

TEAM_NAME = "My Team"
IN_TEST = True

Usage

The main way to interact with this app is to create and use the appropriate models and their managers' methods as needed.

Also included is the NotificationManager a class to expose some common functionality and maintain object permissions.

Some of its methods currently are:

• get_notifications_push/email/basic/all
  • Enforce object ownership and notification 'direction'
• mark_notification_basic_read

You can also interact directly, so for example to send an email notification:

from django_dans_notifications.models import EmailNotification

email_notification = EmailNotification.objects.send_email(...)

Docs

Model docs.

API docs.

Email Template docs.

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