django-sms-gateway 1.0.0

Installation

• Install the package into your project’s virtual environment:

  pip install django-sms-gateway

• Add sms to your project’s settings.INSTALLED_APPS.

• Run ./manage.py migrate or ./manage.py syncdb

Configuration

There are three django models: sms.Message, sms.Gateway, and sms.Reply.

Before you are able to send any messages, you will need to configure at least one gateway. There is some sample data for some gateway providers. You can adapt one of these for your own purposes.

Usage

Create a message, ready to be sent:

msg = Message.objects.create(
  recipient_number="123456789",
  content="Test message",
  sender=user,
  billee=user
)

Note that you must provide at least these fields. recipient_number must include the international prefix (or your gateway must be configured to add it). content should be ASCII, some gateways reject unicode. sender must be an auth.User, but billee may be any object.

This does not send the message:

>>> msg
<Message: [Unsent] Sent to 123456789 by matt at None [1]>

To send it, you need to provide a gateway:

msg.send(gateway)

Status/Reply Callback

If your gateway supports it, you can have it hit your server whenever there are status updates on any message. You can use the included views, in your urlpatterns:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
  (r'^sms/', include('sms.urls')),
)

This would mean that you would need to enter something like:

http://example.com/sms/status_postback/

In your gateway’s settings.

The same applies for replies, if you have a 2-way gateway, but using /sms/reply_postback/ instead.

Billing

Since SMSs are generally billable through web gateways, there is the requirement that a billee is provided, and there is a billed flag on each message. This allows you to bill after-the-fact. If you wanted to only allow sending of messages to people with credits remaining, then

Future

Currently, all sending happens in-process. There is a preliminary celery task, but it has not been extensively tested as yet.