UNICEF Notification

Notification is a library that provides handles sending of notifications.

Installation

pip install unicef-notification

Setup

Add unicef_notification to INSTALLED_APPS in settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'post_office',
    'unicef_notification',
]

Add POST_OFFICE configuration to settings:

POST_OFFICE = {
    'DEFAULT_PRIORITY': 'now',
    'BACKENDS': {
        'default': 'djcelery_email.backends.CeleryEmailBackend'
        }
}

Update TEMPLATES in settings by adding EmailTemplateLoader and marking APP_DIRS as False:

TEMPLATES = [
    ...
    'APP_DIRS': False,  # False because we set loaders manually below
    'OPTIONS': {
    'loaders': [
        'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
        'unicef_notification.loaders.EmailTemplateLoader',
    ],
    ...
    ]

Optional

If you want to override the notification template directory to be used:

UNICEF_NOTIFICATION_TEMPLATE_DIR = 'notifications'

This is the directory where notifcation templates are to be placed in your applications. These are loaded with the upload_notifications management command.

If you want to override the email template prefix:

UNICEF_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_TEMPLATE_PREFIX = 'email-templates/'

Usage

Create notification template in defined UNICEF_NOTIFICATION_TEMPLATE_DIR from setup:

name = "<unique name for notification">
defaults = {
    "description": "Sample notification",
    "subject": "Subject of notification",
    "content": "Content of notification",
    "html_content": "Notificaton content in HTML format",
}

Update the notifications:

python manage.py update_notifications

Send notification with template:

from unicef_notification.utils import send_notification_with_template

context = {}
send_notification_with_template(
    ["[email protected]"],
    "<name-of-template>",
    context,
)

Send notification without a template:

from unicef_notification.utils import send_notification

send_notification(
    ["[email protected]"],
    subject="Subject of notification",
    content="Content of notification",
    html_content="Notification content in HTML format",
)

Contributing

Environment Setup

To install the necessary libraries:

$ make install

Coding Standards

See PEP 8 Style Guide for Python Code for complete details on the coding standards.

To run checks on the code to ensure code is in compliance:

$ make lint

Testing

Testing is important and tests are located in tests/ directory and can be run with:

$ make test

Coverage report is viewable in build/coverage directory, and can be generated with

Project Links

• Continuos Integration - https://circleci.com/gh/unicef/unicef-notification/tree/develop
• Source Code - https://github.com/unicef/unicef-notification