UsageΒΆ

To use django-exo-mentions in a project, add it to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'exo_mentions',
    ...
)

Add this url to your api urls:

Define a signal for the callback

from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.core.signals import request_finished

@receiver(request_finished)
def post_detect_mention_callback(sender, **kwargs):
    """ You will receive information of the mention
    user_from: kwargs.get('user_from')
        User that mentions
    object_pk: kwargs.get('object_pk')
        User's Pk that has been mentioned
    target: kwargs.get('target')
        The object where the mention was made
    """

    # Your code here

Register a model and field in which you want to detect mentions. If you want to get trace about who is the user that has made the mention, ensure the model registered define a property or a model field called created_by. You can override the pattern if you want.

from django.apps import AppConfig
from exo_mentions.registry import register

class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'myapp'

    def ready(self):
        model = Post
        field = 'description'
        callback = post_detect_mention_callback

        register(model, field, callback)

At this point the library will notify to the callback each time there is a mention in the field of the registered model. Thats all! :)

def register(model, field, callback, pattern):
"""
This method handles the mentions about the model in the field and notify to the callback when there is any mention

Parameters
----------
model : Models
    The model to register for detect mentions
field : str
    Field of the model to detect mentions
callback : function
    Callback function to notify when there are mentions
pattern : regular expression
    The pattern to codify the mentions (default r'class="mention" data-user=[\'"]?([^\'" >]+)')

"""