Can't define custom message levels for persistent messages?

[anentropic]

I haven't tried yet, but reading through the code there is this in Message model:

LEVEL_CHOICES = (
    (messages_extends.DEBUG_PERSISTENT, 'PERSISTENT DEBUG'),
    (messages_extends.INFO_PERSISTENT, 'PERSISTENT INFO'),
    (messages_extends.SUCCESS_PERSISTENT, 'PERSISTENT SUCCESS'),
    (messages_extends.WARNING_PERSISTENT, 'PERSISTENT WARNING'),
    (messages_extends.ERROR_PERSISTENT, 'PERSISTENT ERROR'),
    )
level = models.IntegerField(choices=LEVEL_CHOICES)

this would appear to make it impossible to define your own levels for persistent messages

this should either not be validated, or perhaps LEVEL_CHOICES could be provided as a default but overridable from settings.py ?

[AliLozano]

That's only validation for admins forms, you don't need it for use any level from code:

 messages.add_message(request, ANY_NUYMBER, 'Hello world.')

But by other hand, you have reason, you can't customize PERSISTENT_MESSAGES_LEVELS, because storage searchs levels from messages.extends.constants.

I'll check it for be more customizable.

Thanks.

[JanMalte]

@AliLozano actually the message only gets processed and saved by the PersistentStorage, if the message level is in PERSISTENT_MESSAGE_LEVELS.
Therefor adding a custom persistant message level is currently not possible without overwriting the message storage.

django-messages-extends/messages_extends/storages.py

Lines 159 to 165 in d231b65

	def process_message(self, message, *args, **kwargs):
	"""
	If its level is into persist levels, convert the message to models and save it
	"""
	if not message.level in PERSISTENT_MESSAGE_LEVELS:
	return message