djhipchat2: The most complete HipChat integration for Django

djhipchat2 is the Swiss Army knife for HipChat integration. It provides:

• Configurable backend support, including local memory for testing
• Logging integration
• Out-of-the-box integration with Celery for asynchronous sending
• Management command
• Testing

Installation

1. Install: pip install djhipchat2
2. Add djhipchat2 to your INSTALLED_APPS.
3. Configure your backend, or leave it as the default.

Usage

djhipchat.send_message

This will send a HipChat message using the default backend. The parameters mirror those of the HipChat messaging API, defined here: https://www.hipchat.com/docs/api/method/rooms/message.

These are the parameters:

• room_id: The ID of the HipChat room to send to. Room IDs can be found here: https://{{your-account}}.hipchat.com/rooms/ids
• sender: The sender of the message. Must be less than 15 characters long. May contain letters, numbers, -, _, and spaces. (Note: in the HipChat API this is specified as from. It's been changed so it's not a Python keyword.)
• message: The text or HTML of the message.
• message_format: Should be text or html. The default is html
• notify: Should be True if the message should trigger a notification in the room. The default is False
• color: The color of the message. One of "yellow", "red", "green", "purple", "gray", or "random". The default is "yellow".

djhipchat.get_backend

Get a reference to a HipChat backend. Each backend has one defined method: send_message which has the same parameters as djhipchat.send_message.

Logger

Integrate HipChat into your server logging: this defines a logging handler that sends the message to a HipChat room. You can configure a logger to notify members of the room, or also configure multiple colors for log levels using the same handler. Here is a sample:

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'handlers': {
        'djhipchat': {
            'level': 'INFO',
            'class': 'djhipchat.logger.HipChatHandler',
            'token': '{{your_token_here}}',
            'room' : '{{your_room_id_here}}',
            'sender': 'Myapp',
            'notify': True,
            'color':'green',
            'colors': {
               'ERROR':'red',
               'CRITICAL':'red',
               'WARNING':'yellow',
           }
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'test_handler': {
            'handlers': ['djhipchat'],
            'level': 'INFO',
            'propagate': False,
        },
    }
}

This is inspired by: https://gist.github.com/hugorodgerbrown/3176710

Management command

This app provides a management command to easily send a message to the configured backend. The usage is simple: python manage.py hipchat <room_id> <message>

Options are available at: python manage.py help hipchat

Configuration

HIPCHAT_BACKEND

Specifies the default backend to use. The default is djhipchat.backends.locmem.HipChatBackend

HIPCHAT_API_TOKEN

Specifies the HipChat API token. This is theoretically optional except for the request backend, but that's probably what you want to use in production anyway.

HIPCHAT_DEFAULT_SENDER

The default sender if not specified in a send_message call. If not specified, the default is "Django".

HIPCHAT_CELERY_BACKEND

When using the Celery backend, it needs a "synchronous" backend to actually send the message. There is no default, so you must specify this in order to use the Celery backend.

Backends

djhipchat.backends.celery.HipChatBackend

This backend sends all messages through a Celery task. In order to use this backend, you must have celery installed and specify a synchronous backend in the HIPCHAT_CELERY_BACKEND setting.

djhipchat.backends.dummy.HipChatBackend

Just what is sounds like: this backend does nothing.

djhipchat.backends.locmem.HipChatBackend

Similar to the locmem email backend in Django, this collects all messages into an array at djhipchat.sent_messages. You can use this for testing.

djhipchat.backends.request.HipChatBackend

This is the default backend, which actually sends your message to HipChat.