Project Summary

• Enable generic way of sending notifications - these notifications should be capable of being delivered via the Community App, via the Android app for field officers or Android self-service app, via SMS, or via Email.
• Mingle Actions into the notification - To allow the user to directly act upon the alert directly from the notification (i.e. approve a client).

Approach for designing  a generic notification system

The designing of the notification system will be done in two parts :-

• Notification generation and storage

• Notification Delivery

How the system knows when to generate a notification

Let us start with the standard pub-sub(publication-subscription) model:

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This part has to be async and it can achieved by implementing message queues. Read about them here.

How to generate a notification

A listener then generates a notification. The notification will have the following model :

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             subject                 object                               action          actor

How to show notifications to the user

//To be done