# Django Rest Framework - Webhooks
**Configurable webhooks for DRF Serializers**
## Goals:
- [x] Use existing DRF Serializers from REST API to serialize data in webhooks
- [x] Consistent data formatting
- [x] Reusable OpenAPI schemas
- [x] Configurable webhooks that simply work *(by way of django signals magic)* without the developer having to keep track of where to trigger them
- [x] Still allow for "manual" triggering of webhooks
- This is useful because signals aren't always triggered
- For example: `QuerySet.update` does not trigger signals
- [x] Disable webhooks using context managers
- This can be useful when syncing large chunks of data
- or with a duplex sync (when two systems sync with each other) to avoid endless loops
- [x] **Webhook Signal Session**
- [x] A context manager gathers all models signals and at the end of the session only triggers the resulting webhooks
- [x] If a model instance is both `created` and `deleted` within the session, then no webhook is sent for that model instance
- [x] If a model instance is `created` and then also `updated` within the session, then a `created` event is sent with the data from the last `updated` signal. Only one webhook even is sent
- [x] If a models instance is `updated` multiple times within the session, then only one webhook event is sent
- [x] Middleware wraps each request in **Webhook Signal Session** context
- **NOTE:** The developer will have to call the context manager in code that runs outside of requests (for example in celery tasks) manually
- [x] Automatically determine which nested models need to be monitored for changes
## Examples:
```python
from django.db import models
from drf_webhooks import ModelSerializerWebhook, register_webhook
from rest_framework import serializers
class MyModel(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_lenght=100)
class MyModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = MyModel
fields = ['id', 'name']
# Automatic:
register_webhook(MyModel)()
# ---- OR ----
# If you need more configuration:
@register_webhook(MyModel)
class MyModelWebhook(ModelSerializerWebhook):
base_name = 'core.my_model'
```
# Documentation:
## Quckstart:
### Install `drf-webhooks`
```bash
poetry add drf-webhooks
# ... or ...
pip install drf-webhooks
```
### Update `settings.py`:
```python
INSTALLED_APPS = [
# ...
'drf_webhooks',
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
# ...
'drf_webhooks.middleware.WebhooksMiddleware',
]
# This is required if you don't want your database to fill up with logs:
CELERY_BEAT_SCHEDULE = {
'clean-webhook-log': {
'task': 'drf_webhooks.tasks.auto_clean_log',
'schedule': 60,
'options': {'expires': 10},
},
}
```
### Create a new django app
Recommended app name: `webhooks`
```python
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# apps.py
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
from django.apps import AppConfig
class WebhooksAppConfig(AppConfig):
name = "<your module name>"
label = "webhooks"
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# models.py
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
from drf_webhooks.models import AbstractWebhook, AbstractWebhookLogEntry
class Webhook(AbstractWebhook):
# This can also be a group or an organization that the user belongs to:
owner = models.ForeignKey(get_user_model(), on_delete=models.CASCADE)
def __str__(self):
return 'id=%s, events=%s, owner=%s' % (
str(self.id),
', '.join(self.events),
str(self.owner),
)
class WebhookLogEntry(AbstractWebhookLogEntry):
# This can also be a group or an organization that the user belongs to:
owner = models.ForeignKey(get_user_model(), on_delete=models.CASCADE)
```