I'm using Stream-Django, Django framework for getstream.io for showing feeds.
However, for showing list of followers of a particular user, I'm not able to find any API exposed by getstream.
Right now I'm using Django db queries to get the list of followers for a particular user, but am wondering if this can be done via getstream apis
If you want users to be able to follow each other but not necessarily follow each other's activities, then you can create a new feed for each user called, for example, "profile" just to handle that. The profile feed needn't contain any activities. Retrieving a list of followers of a user's profile feed is then what you want.
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Can anyone provide me with working example how to show analytics (Visits, Page views, Page views per visit, etc) for logged users? As I understand there is no OOB solution, so I've tried to implement flexible dimensions, but didn't find any good examples and failed.
First of all you have to identify your logged in contact by calling the Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current.Session.IdentifyAs() method, see more details here. When the contact logs in you can use their username to identify them upon the successful login.
Note, that the identification and authentication are separate unrelated events. Contacts are identified against the xDB and authenticated against the authentication mechanism used by the website.
When the contact identifies, it is saved to xConnect with a known identifier based on the information passed into theIdentifyAs() method: Identifier, Source and
IdentifierType will be set to ContactIdentifierType.Known (it is set to ContactIdentifierType.Anonymous for anonymous contacts). Then you can use IsKnown property on the Sitecore.XConnect.Contact that returns true if a contact has any known identifiers.
If you want to track some custom events for the logged in users to then use them for reporting needs you can add user interactions by calling the client.AddInteraction() extension method. I have given an example here.
If you want to extend the contact with your own custom data then you can create custom contact facets, read more here.
In order to implement your custom report with flexible filtering by logged in and not users, of course, you will need to define your custom dimensions and metrics, read more here.
I'm still a complete newbie on Django, so now I'm a little bit lost on what I could do to structure my server to suit my needs.
The situation is like this: my Django admin could be accessed by the admin and multiple users. Each user can add multiple item to the server, and the server will only allow them to retrieve, modify and delete item added by them and not the other users. They will also have some custom option they can pick: like receiving notifications through emails or another channels. Meanwhile, admin can see all items, and have a filter to see all items added by one user and all users's custom option.
Any help would be appreciated.
take a look here. this is where i started with custom user models. https://wsvincent.com/django-custom-user-model-tutorial/
Django has builtin user models with basic fields like username email and password and authentication. The above link will help you create custom user models and it will be a good place to start
How can I retrieve the entire list of users from kinvey?
I tried to use:
User[] users = myClient.user().retrieveBlocking(new Query()).execute();
but my application crashed.
The user().retrieve will get just the logged-in user.
You cannot simply get a list of all users with the SDK. This would be a security risk. But, you might want to be able to look at the following:
a. User Discovery http://devcenter.kinvey.com/android/guides/users#lookup
b. Business Logic, where you can get a list of all users as a Custom Endpoint, then return that list to the caller. In that Endpoint, you can use "collectionAccess" to the "user" collection to get to that data.
I have a webapp that allows authenticated as well as anonymous users to start entering some form data. If a user is happy with his/her input, he/she can save that form to the server. This is a very similar problem to a shopping cart application that does not require login until checkout time.
For the authenticated user, implementing a save button is trivial. However for the anonymous user, the form data need to be stored somewhere while authentication is taking place, then correctly retrieved after logged in. Can someone please suggest some general strategies to go about this?
I found this link that is promising but I want to be thorough about this topic.
I think the correct way of doing this is to use django sessions. Basically each user (anonymousUser included) has a session during its stay on the website (or even more).
If you have a form that you want to store for a specific session, you can do it by using
request.session['myform'] = form
you get it by
request.session['myform']
and you can delete it using
del request.session['myform']
Basically Django pickles a dictionary of the session and saves it in a place (typically the database, but can be on other place as explained in django sessions).
So I want to keep track of about 100 employees but only five of them should be able to log in into the backend (the rest starts with no loginpossibilities at all) what's the best way to solve that problem ?
I thought of an EmployeeModel that has a 1to1-relation to an abstractBaseUser but is that the way to go or is there something easier ?
~Max
Why not make use of Django 1.5's new customisable User model and model each employee as a user with an extended profile:
In Django 1.5, you can now use your own model as the store for user-related data. If your project needs a username with more than 30 characters, or if you want to store user’s names in a format other than first name/last name, or you want to put custom profile information onto your User object, you can now do so.
By making each employee a "user", you have the balance of being able to control their ability to login (using is_staff) as well as being able to add as much employee profile information that you need.
Why not just have FK from employee to user if an employee has an attached account?
Don't go for over customisation as this can be easily achieved easily using the built-in tools. Make the login_page require a permission suppose say "can login". And just make these 5 users have those permission. So rest will automatically get a permission denied response when trying to login.