Sitemessage for reusable applications

sitemessage offers reusable applications authors an API to send messages in a way that can be customized by project authors.

For applications authors

Use sitemessage.toolbox.get_message_type_for_app to return a registered message type object for your application.

Note

Project authors can override the above mentioned object to customize messages.

from sitemessage.toolbox import get_message_type_for_app, schedule_messages, recipients


def schedule_email(text, to, subject):
    """Suppose you're sending a notification and want to sent a plain text e-mail by default."""

    # This says: give me a message type `email_plain` if not overridden.
    message_cls = get_message_type_for_app('myapp', 'email_plain')
    message_obj = message_cls(subject, text)

    # And this actually schedules a message to send via `smtp` messenger.
    schedule_messages(message_obj, recipients('smtp', to))

Note

It’s advisable for reusable applications authors to document which message types are used in the app by default, with which arguments, so that project authors may design their custom message classes accordingly.

For project authors

Use sitemessage.toolbox.override_message_type_for_app to override a given message type used by a certain application with a custom one.

Note

You’d probably need to know which message types are used in an app by default, and with which arguments, so that you may design your custom message classes accordingly (e.g. by subclassing the default type).

from sitemessage.toolbox import override_message_type_for_app

# This will override `email_plain` message type by `my_custom_email_plain` for `myapp` application.
override_message_type_for_app('myapp', 'email_plain', 'my_custom_email_plain')

Warning

Be sure to call override_message_type_for_app beforehand. So that to the moment when a thirdparty app will try to send a message, message type is overridden.