am trying to create a notification system that tracks all the activities of my users. to achieve this I have created two models, The Contribution model and Notifition model
class Contribution(models.Model):
slug = models.SlugField(unique=True, blank=True, null=True)
user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.PROTECT)
amount = models.DecimalField(default=0.00, max_digits=6, decimal_places=2)
zanaco_id = models.CharField(max_length=20, blank=True, unique=True, null=True)
class Notification(models.Model):
slug = models.SlugField(unique=True, blank=True)
content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
content_object = GenericForeignKey('content_type', 'object_id')
message = models.TextField(null=True)
I want to create a Notification object each time a user creates an object in the Contribution table, but am having some difficulties in getting the object created from CreateView
class ContributionAdd(CreateView):
model = Contribution
fields = ['user', 'amount', 'zanaco_id']
template_name = 'contribution_add.html'
def form_valid(self, form, *args, **kwargs):
activity_ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model("????")
Notification.objects.create(content_type=activity_ct, object_id="?????",content_object=???,)
return super().form_valid(form)
how can I achieve the task above ? is their a way doing this using mixins ?
An elegant way to do this would be using a post save signal:
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
@receiver(post_save, sender=Contribution)
def createNotification(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if created:
Notification.objects.create(content_type=activity_ct, object_id="?????",content_object=???,)