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Setup

1. Clone project

2. Turn top level notify directory in python3 virtual envirnemnt $ python3 -m venv notify

3. Install requirements $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. Run migrations $ cd notify $ python manage.py migrate

Update Zappa settings This applications runs django on a serverless AWS Lambda enviroment using Miserlou's Zappa project. Update the notify/zappa_settings.json file with your own configuration

Required environment variables: DEV or PROD Variable the specifies how the application will run DEV: runs in DJANO DEBUG=True and will disable all AWS functions and print message sending info to console PROD: runs in DJANGO DEBUG=FALSE and will enable all AWS functions

APP_NAME A name specified for the application and will be used in the subject line of email messages

SOURCE_EMAIL An email used by AWS SES that is verified that you can send from. Chack and make sure you have a verified email to send messages to or have requested a rate increase taking your SES out of sandbox mode.

Database environment variables Postgres database required

RDS_DB_NAME

RDS_HOSTNAME

RDS_USERNAME

RDS_PASSWORD

RDS_PORT

Testing notifications

Start virtual environment

import requests import datetime import pytz tz = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')

Create a notification for 5 minutes from now

dt = datetime.datetime.now(tz=tz) + datetime.timedelta(minutes=10) data = data = {"recipient":"[email protected]","message":"Test","datetime":dt} r = requests.post("http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/notifications/create_email/", data=data) r = requests.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/notifications/go/") Should send no notification

Wait 5 mins

r = requests.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/notifications/go/")

Should send one notification