REST API call to mark notification as read

Hi mfeltscher 

I don't think there is an API available to mark a notification as 'read' right now. As there isn't a similar functionality in the UI, I am assuming that the REST call is something which could be introduced as a future improvement, if it is seen as a need by a significant group. What I suggest is to have a look on our Idea board and add a new idea about this - or add the suggestion to this existing idea which is hinting to similar features.

Cheers,

PaoloT As far as I can see there is a similar functionality in the frontend. First, I see the unread notification count and second, if I go to the notification page, I see which notifications got read and which are unread. How is this handled internally?

Moreno

Hi mfeltscher 

I wouldn't be able to illustrate the inner workings of the platform, this would be more a question for our engineering department. Even so, I am not sure they would be sharing internal platform implementation details, unless they form part of a standard platform customization point.

I understand what you say, however there is no explicit feature in the UI that allows a user to mark a notification read or unread. Also, the REST API does not currently offer a call to retrieve unread notifications (the question was also asked here).

Kind Regards,

Hi PaoloT 

Could you please get in touch with the engineering department to get some more information on how this is done by Lithium?

Thanks,

Moreno

Hi mfeltscher 

For this type of request, I suggest you get in touch with our Support department - however, as I have mentioned I am not sure whether internal implementation details will be shared externally.

Kind Regards,

Just a question on this topic.

Wouldn't it make sense for Lithium Engineering to build out a full API for Notifications first and then simply build the out-of-the-box component via this API rather than directly coding them? What is the reasoning here, other than it being much faster to program? 

Custom Components and OOTB components should be 1:1. 

Looking at this idea here -- http://community.lithium.com/t5/Product-ideas/quot-API-first-quot-development/idi-p/79260 it supposed to be partially delivered - and V2 looks to be going in this direction.. albeit slowly.

As a principle this idea has huge merit, Lithium should be sitting up and taking note of just how many users are getting "not via the API" responses here in the Community.

Thanks

HI mfeltscher 

As per my knowledge its not possible to set user notification using rest api but it can be achiveable using jquery. I have done the same part. i.e. facebook shows notification on top of the page. I achived it using jquery. Following is the code. Hope it may help you:

;( function( $, undefined )
{
    $.fn.UserNotifications = function()
    {
        var $item   = $( '#user-notifications-menu-top' )
          , $list   = $item.find( '#notification-list' )
          , unread  = parseInt( $item.find( '.user-navigation-combine-notification-feed .lia-header-nav-component-unread-count' ).text() )
          , pageURL = $item.find( '.user-navigation-combine-notification-feed .lia-link-navigation' ).attr( 'href' );

        $item.find( '#alerts-count' ).text( unread );
        $item.find( '#notifications-page-link' ).attr( 'href', pageURL );
    
        if( unread > 0 )
        {
            $item.addClass( 'new-notifications' );
            $list.find( 'li:lt( ' + unread + ' )' ).addClass( 'unread' );
        }
        else
        {
            $item.addClass( 'no-new-notifications' );
        }
    };

} )( jQuery );

Note: Also you need to make some css per code.

Hi bhupen 

Thank you for your reply. Since we want to use the notification count in a third party software we cannot solve this by using Frontend technologies such as Javascript / jQuery.

Thanks anyway for sharing your code

Moreno

mfeltscher  I think you want when some one rank/like/mention/reply/ on your post then notification will comeup as unread. Once you click on view all notification the it will convert into read. Thats what exactly this code does. I don't think lithium provide third party api etc.. Hope this will help you.. also there is api for notification count

restapi/vc/users/id/youruserid/notifications/count

Yes this is what I want but I want to expose this information in another application, therefore I need to be able to access this information using Lithium's REST API. I hope Lithium will offer this functionality at some point, since it is already possible in the frontend. As cblown mentioned it would be a good approach regarding consistency to implement new functionality in the API first and afterwards develop the frontend parts.