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Extension Point : INotificationSubscriber

InterfaceINotificationSubscriberSince1.1.3
Moduletrac.notificationSourceapi.py​

The INotificationSubscriber subscribes users to notification events.

Purpose

Trac provides an extendible and flexible notification system. Different people are interested in different kinds of notifications. Notification subscriptions allow administrators and / or users to configure the exact rules used that trigger sending of notifications.

Usage

Implementing the interface follows the standard guidelines found in TracDev/ComponentArchitecture and of course TracDev/PluginDevelopment.

The main part of this interface is the match() function. It returns a list of subscriptions, in the form of tuples consisting of:

  • class: The name of the Python class. (This could probably be removed.)
  • distributor: Also known as transport. E.g. the string email. See INotificationDistributor.
  • sid: The session ID of the subscriber. (Can be None if address is provided.)
  • authenticated: 1 for authenticated session IDs, 0 for anonymous session IDs.
  • address: The (email) address to use. (Can be None if sid is provided.)
  • format: The MIME type to be used (e.g. text/plain or text/html.)
  • priority: An integer priority. Smaller numbers have higher priority than bigger numbers. 1 is the highest priority.
  • adverb: Either the string always or never.

Since more than one component can handle the same realms and categories, the priorities and adverbs are used to resolve conflicting subscriptions.

The implementation can use any means to determine if a user is interested in hearing about a given event. Most check that the appropriate conditions apply and then retrieve the required information from the notify_subscription DB table.

The subscriptions in that table are configured in a shared preferences panel that uses two other methods of this interface: The simple description() method returns a description string shown to the user in the preferences panel (or None if the plugin does use the notify_subscriptions DB table.) The requires_authentication() method allows hiding the rule from unauthenticated users. (E.g. because only authenticated users can be ticket owners.)

The default_subscriptions() method describes any default subscriptions that automatically exist without the user configuring subscription DB entries in the preferences. These are also displayed on the preferences panel, but can not be directly modified there. (They usually can be overriden by non-default subscriptions.) The plugin still has to return the respective subscriptions from the matches() method.

Default descriptions should be used when users can be determined by the event itself. For instance, ticket author has a default subscription that is controlled via trac.ini. Default subscriptions should be low priority (i.e. have a priority number much larger than 1, like 100) so that the user can easily override them.

Examples

The following example implements a simple subscriber that can trigger notifications when a new ticket is created with a high priority level. 

from trac.core import *
from trac.notification.api import INotificationSubscriber
from trac.notification.model import Subscription

class HighPriorityTicketNotificationSubscriber(Component):

    implements(INotificationSubscriber)

    # INotificationSubscriber methods

    def matches(self, event):
        if event.realm != 'ticket':
            return
        if event.category != 'created':
            return

        ticket = event.target
        if ticket['priority'] not in ('blocker', 'critical', 'major'):
            return

        klass = self.__class__.__name__
        for i in Subscription.find_by_class(self.env, klass):
            yield i.subscription_tuple()

    def description(self):
        return "notify me when new high priority tickets are created"

    def requires_authentication(self):
        return False

See wiki:CookBook/Notification/Subscriptions for more examples.

Available Implementations

Additional Information and References

History

Last modified 8 years ago Last modified on Mar 22, 2017, 9:05:16 PM
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