Use Django's Messages Framework with Django Rest Framework.

Requirements:

• Python (3.7, 3.8, 3.9)
• Django (2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2)
• Django Rest Framework (3.7-3.12)

Django's message framework is awesome, and now its even better with Django Rest Framework!

The django's messages framework is a very easy and quick way to provide one-time messages for the user. When using django rest framework you loose most of the functionality of it. Using this app you can access your messages though a rest api endpoint.

• Persistent message storage in database
• Automatic cleanup
• DRF endpoint for accessing messages

1. Install using:

$ pip install drf-messages

2. Configure project settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'rest_framework',
    'drf_messages',
    # ...
]

MESSAGE_STORAGE = "drf_messages.storage.DBStorage"

4. Configure routes at your project's urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('messages/', include('drf_messages.urls')),
    # ...
]

3. Run migrations using:

$ py manage.py migrate drf_messages

For more details visit the docs for installation: https://drf-messages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/installation.html

You can list all your messages with:

$ curl -X GET "http://localhost/messages/"

Any unread messages will have read_at as null. If you have django-filter configured, you can also query "http://localhost/messages/?unread=true" to get only unread messages.

In case you have trouble while using this module, you may use the GitHub Disccussion.

For any bug or issue, open a new GitHub Issue.