ATM, the notification is easy to use but not very flexible. You can pre-configure notification messages, use the
<not:notification> templates in your forms, and the messages are sent automatically (you don't have to care for them in your usecase implementation).
I think a Java component would be more suitable for this task, maybe alongside with predefined forms:
Notifier notifier = (Notifier) manager.lookup(Notifier.ROLE); notifier.useConfiguration(ThisUseCase.USECASE_NAME); notifier.addMessage("Resource was published: " + resource.getUrl()); WorkflowVersion version = resource.getWorkflow().getLastVersion("submit"); User submitter = version.getExecutor(); notifier.addRecipient(submitter); ... notifier.send();
Some "automagic" might be useful:
- There is a config file for notification (as it is now).
- We define some request parameter names:
- lenya.notification.to
- lenya.notification.message
GregorRothfuss : what would the to refer to? users and / or groups?
- The notifier checks the request for these parameters and
uses them to override the configuration options.
Maybe it would make sense to use Lenya users instead of plain e-mail addresses for notification. Then the notification type (mail, IM, SMS, ...) could be configured, maybe even by the recipients.
GregorRothfuss : I agree. The email address is an implementation detail and it would make sense to hide it. How is emailing a group handled? Individual emails to all group members?