django-hipchat¶
Seamless HipChat integration for Django¶
This project provides easy-to-use integration between Django projects and the HipChat group chat and IM tool.
- Uses the templating system, rather than constructing messages “by hand” in your views.py and models.py.
- Easily enabled and disabled in certain environments, preventing DRY violations by centralising the logic to avoid sending messages in development or staging environments.
- Pluggable backend system for greater control over exactly how messages are transmitted to the HipChat API (eg. sent asynchronously using your queuing system)
Installation¶
- Add django_hipchat to INSTALLED_APPS.
- Ensure django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader is in your TEMPLATE_LOADERS.
Usage¶
To send a messsage:
from django_hipchat import hipchat_message
hipchat_message('path/to/my_message.hipchat', {
'foo': Foo.objects.get(pk=17),
})
Where path/to/my_message.hipchat (in your templates directory) might contain:
{% extends django_hipchat %}
{% block message %}
Message text here: {{ foo.bar|urlize }}
{% endblock %}
{% block room_id %}
Room name
{% endblock %}
{% block color %}
red
{% endblock %}
Required blocks:
- message – contains the message you wish to send. HTML entities are automatically escaped.
Required blocks which can be defaulted globally and overridden (see Configuration):
- room_id – ID or name of the room.
- from – Name the message will appear be sent from. Must be less than 15 characters long. May contain letters, numbers, -, _, and spaces.
- auth_token – Your HipChat authentication token (eg. 2aa7412fcb1b2e98067339603768c2)
Optional blocks:
- color – Background color for the message. One of “yellow”, “red”, “green”, “purple”, “gray”, or “random”. (default: yellow)
Configuration¶
HIPCHAT_BACKEND¶
Default: "django_hipchat.backends.urllib" ("django_hipchat.backends.disabled" if settings.DEBUG)
A string pointing to the eventual method that will actually send the message to the HipChat API. The default backend will send the message using the Python urllib library.
You can use this setting to globally disable sending messages to HipChat. You may need to set this to django_hipchat.backends.disabled when running tests or in your staging environment if you do not already set DEBUG = True in these environments.
If you are using a queue processor, you can wrap the supplied urllib backend so that messages are sent asynchronously and do not delay processing of requests:
from django_hipchat.backends import urllib as urllib_backend
from django_lightweight_queue.task import task
@task()
def queued_hipchat_backend(url, fail_silently):
urllib_backend(url, fail_silently)
This would be enabled by setting HIPCHAT_BACKEND to (for example) path.to.tasks.queued_hipchat_backend.
You can also use the supplied django_hipchat.backends.console when developing. Instead of actually sending the message to HipChat, the console backend just writes the emails that would be sent to standard output.
HIPCHAT_AUTH_TOKEN¶
Default: None
Your HipChat authentication token. You can override on a per-message level by specifying a {% block auth_token %}{% endblock %} in your message templates.
HIPCHAT_MESSAGE_FROM¶
Default: None
Use this setting to set a default name the message will appear be sent from.
You can override on a per-message level by specifying a {% block from %}{% endblock %} in your message template.
HIPCHAT_MESSAGE_ROOM¶
Default: None
Use this setting to set a default ID or name of the room the message should appear in.
You can override on a per-message level by specifying a {% block room_id %}{% endblock %} in your message template.
HIPCHAT_FAIL_SILENTLY¶
Default: False
Whether errors should be silenced or raised to the user. As HipChat messages are often for administrators of a site and not the users, masking temporary errors with the HipChat API may be desired.
Links¶
- Homepage/documentation:
- https://django-hipchat.readthedocs.org/
- View/download code
- https://github.com/thread/django-hipchat
- File a bug
- https://github.com/thread/django-hipchat/issues