Discussion forum notifications
- Venkatanarayana Kadiveti
Introduction
This document describes the key design problem statement and probable solutions for
discussion forum notifications SB-25091: DF>> API - Notify users on important forum activities - design reviewDesign Review .
Problem Statement
Sending notification to user for each action performed in discussion forum.
Key designs solutions
Labels
How to get sunbird identifiers in discussion forum middleware
How to call notification feed api from discussion forum middleware
How to make notification configurable
what data need to dump in additional info.
Context info.
Category info.
Topic info.
Post info
Example:
Case 1: When someone adds a reply to the post(topic) created by him/her
User1 replied to your topic
${user} ${action} to your ${type}
Case2: When someone adds a reply to the comment/reply added by him/her
User1 replied to your post
${user} ${action} to your ${type}
Case3: When someone upvotes the post(topic) created by him/her
User1 upvoted to your topic
${user} ${action} to your ${type}
Case4: When someone upvotes the reply/comment added by him/her
User1 upvoted to your post
${user} ${action} to your ${type}
Case5: When someone downvotes the post(topic) created by him/her
User1 downvoted to your topic
${user} ${action} to your ${type}
Case6: When someone downvotes the reply/comment added by him/her
User1 downvoted to your post
${user} ${action} to your ${type}
Additional INFO:
"additionalInfo": {
"context": {
"type": "group/course/batch",
"identifier": "groupID/courseID/batchID",
"cid": "categoryID"
},
"topic": {
"tid": "topicID",
"title": "topicTitle",
"slug": "topicSlug"
},
"category": {
"cid": "CID",
"title": "categoryTitle",
"slug": "categorySlug"
},
"post": {
"pid": "postID",
"title": "postTitle",
"slug": "postSlug"
}
}
Labels
Action | Message | Params |
When someone adds a reply to the post(topic) created by him/her | User1 replied to your topic | ${user} ${action} to your ${type} |
When someone adds a reply to the comment/reply added by him/her | User1 replied to your post | ${user} ${action} to your ${type} |
When someone upvotes the post(topic) created by him/her | User1 upvoted to your topic | ${user} ${action} to your ${type} |
When someone upvotes the reply/comment added by him/her | User1 upvoted to your post | ${user} ${action} to your ${type} |
When someone downvotes the post(topic) created by him/her | User1 downvoted to your topic | ${user} ${action} to your ${type} |
When someone downvotes the reply/comment added by him/her | User1 downvoted to your post | ${user} ${action} to your ${type} |
Template IDS | Action type’s | Data | Schema |
replied | member-replied | { “title“: “${param1} ${param2} to your ${param3}“ } | { "$schema": "#/definition/params", "title": "params context", "description": "properties Data", "type": "object", "properties": { "param1": { "description": "property 1 value", "type": "string" }, "param2": { "description": "property 2 value", "type": "string" }, "param3": { "description": "property 3 value", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "param1", "param2", “param3“ ] } |
voted | member-voted | { “title“: “${param1} ${param2} to your ${param3}“ } | { "$schema": "#/definition/params", "title": "params context", "description": "properties Data", "type": "object", "properties": { "param1": { "description": "property 1 value", "type": "string" }, "param2": { "description": "property 2 value", "type": "string" }, "param3": { "description": "property 3 value", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "param1", "param2", "param3" ] } |
Solution:
Get sunbird identifiers in discussion forum middleware
For this we have both fromUID and creator uid, can with this uids we can get the respective sunbird ids by calling this api
Path: /api/forum/v2/uids
Request:
curl --location --request POST 'https://preprod.ntp.net.in/discussions/api/forum/v2/uids' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"request": {
"sbIdentifiers": [
"7a78a1f2-0a29-4c1b-9898-061d7314d030",
"efd862be-b275-4209-8a31-2f2e25874f1b"
]
}
}'Response:
How to call notification feed api from discussion forum middleware
How to make notification configurable
Create new env variable in DMW
Prepare payload for notification api
Payload
Example
User Actions
Topic reply
Req url : {host}/discussion/v2/topic/:tid
Curl:
Response:
2. Vote to topic or reply
Req url: {host}/discussion/v2/posts/:pid/vote
Curl:
Response: