I'm trying to add Django-notifications to my drf project. I get response when hitting the endpoint:
[
{
"recipient": {
"id": 274,
"username": "harry",
"first_name": "Harry",
"last_name": "Moreno"
},
"unread": true,
"target": null,
"verb": "invite approved"
}
]
serializers.py
class GenericNotificationRelatedField(serializers.RelatedField):
User = get_user_model()
def to_representation(self, value):
if isinstance(value, Invite):
serializer = InviteSerializer(value)
if isinstance(value, User):
serializer = UserSerializer(value)
return serializer.data
class NotificationSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
recipient = UserSerializer(read_only=True)
unread = serializers.BooleanField(read_only=True)
target = GenericNotificationRelatedField(read_only=True)
How do I make the target non-null?
Turns out the target is null because that is how I created the notification in the model
notify.send(user, recipient=user, verb='you reached level 10')
if I wanted a non-null target I should specify one like
notify.send(user, recipient=user, target=user, verb='you reached level 10')
Note: there is no django view that generates the json in the question. In our urls.py we wire up the route to the notification view from the app.
path(
"alerts/",
views.NotificationViewSet.as_view({"get": "list"}),
name="notifications",
),
see the installation instructions https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications#installation