XF 2.1 Alert is not showing

[grantus]

My alert code is sending an alert to the appropriate user and it shows up with a "1" in the alert notification, but the alert is not showing anything. And when I go to the Alert page it doesn't show anything either. I'm assuming it's because the alert template is not named properly.

Here is my alert:

$receiver = \XF::finder('XF:User')->where('user_id', 24495)->fetchOne();

if ($receiver) {
   $sender = \XF::finder('XF:User')->where('user_id', 1)->fetchOne();
   $alertRepo = $this->repository('XF:UserAlert');
   $alertRepo->alert(
      $receiver,
      $sender->user_id,
      $sender->username,
      'newbattle',
      1111,
      'battle',
      ["value1" => 01, "value2" => 02, "status" => "active", 'depends_on_addon_id' => 'Battles/ILL']
   );
}

I have an Alert.php page under Battles\ILL\Alert with:

namespace Battles\ILL\Alert;
use XF\Alert\AbstractHandler;
use XF\Entity\UserAlert;

class NewBattle extends AbstractHandler {

    public function canViewAlert(UserAlert $alert, &$error = null): bool {
        return true;
    }

}

I've set up the content types like this:

content type: newbattle
field: entity
value: Battles\ILL:NewBattle
addon: Battles

content type: newbattle
field: alert_handler_class
value: Battles\ILL\Alert\NewBattle
addon: Battles

I see that the alert is inserted properly into the xf_user_alert table, so what should the alert template be named?

 

[Jeremy P]

See \XF\Alert\AbstractHandler::getTemplateName and \XF\Alert\AbstractHandler::getPushTemplateName.

You can override these, but they are public:alert_{$contentType}_{$action} and public:push_{$contentType}_{$action} by default.

 

[grantus]

See \XF\Alert\AbstractHandler::getTemplateName and \XF\Alert\AbstractHandler::getPushTemplateName.

You can override these, but they are public:alert_{$contentType}_{$action} and public:push_{$contentType}_{$action} by default.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I looked in AbstractHandler and I have my template as alert_newbattle_battle but it doesn't seem to work still. The content_type and action are inserted correctly.

 

[grantus]

I just tested it again by changing the content_type to 'user' and the action to 'newbattle', then named my template alert_user_newbattle and now I see the alert.

Why is that? Why would my content_type not work?

I even copied the exact code from XF\Alert\User and changed the class to NewBattle and it didn't work.

 

[Jeremy P]

Beyond the content not being visible to the alerted user, I'm not sure. You might try dumping things from the alert page template to debug further.

 

[grantus]

Beyond the content not being visible to the alerted user, I'm not sure. You might try dumping things from the alert page template to debug further.

I dumped the alert page but it wasn't even showing the content_type, so it's confusing. I'm going to work with the user content_type since it seems to work no problem.