Week 7

Milestones

• Implement waiting users queue in lock-asset API
• Implement push notifications in lock-asset API
• Make lock asset realtime with service workers

Contributions

• Changes

  • Changed configuration of service workers to operate them them in both development and production mode instead of only production mode.
  • Changed pre-exiting lock-asset API to add a list of waiting users as a queue in cache.
  • Added push notification feature in lock-asset API to inform waiting users when the asset is available.
  • Changed the push notification feature to generate notifications without saving them in the database for convienience.

• Commits

  • Add service worker configuration for development mode
  • Implement waiting queue and extend the pre existing Notification Generator class for asset based notifications
  • Add lock/unlock notification types in Notification Class
  • Replace Notification Generator class in favour of send_webpush function for convinience
  • Send all relevant information about current asset occupier in case of conflict of asset opearation

Learnings

• Learnt how to use webpush notifications in django.
• Learnt how to use shared_tasks with celery.
• Learnt about receing push and message events using eventListener in service workers.