Prioritizing messages

sitemessage supports message sending prioritization: any message might be given a positive number to describe its priority.

Note

It’s up to you to decide the meaning of priority numbers.

Prioritization is supported on the following two levels:

1. You can define priority within your message type class.

from sitemessage.messages.base import MessageBase


class MyMessage(MessageBase):

    alias = 'mymessage'

    priority = 10  # Messages of this type will automatically have priority of 10.

    ...

2. Or you can override priority defined within message type, by supplying priority argument to messages scheduling functions.

from sitemessage.shortcuts import schedule_email
from sitemessage.toolbox import schedule_messages, recipients


schedule_email('Email from sitemessage.', 'user2@host.com', priority=1)

# or

schedule_messages('My message', recipients('smtp', 'user1@host.com'), priority=16)

After that you can use sitemessage_send_scheduled management command with –priority argument to send message when needed:

./manage.py sitemessage_send_scheduled --priority 10

Note

Use a scheduler (e.g cron, uWSGI cron/cron2, etc.) to send messages with different priorities on different days or intervals, and even simultaneously.