Is there any way to access the notification queue directly?

[joaqo]

Hi! Just wondering if is there any way to access the notification queue directly?

[seniv]

Hi👋
Right now, there's no option to do that. What exactly do you want to do with the queue? Maybe it's already implemented in the v3.0.0 RC, or I can implement it later

[joaqo]

I wanted to create custom rules to decide what to do with an oncoming notification depending on the current notification being shown to the user. More specifically, in my app restaurants receive delivery orders, and those notifications are persistent for obvious reason. If there is a low priority notification incoming for the restaurant, but there is also a new order notification being shown, I want to ignore the incoming one as I don't want to dismiss the more important new order one.

For the time being I implemented this by manually tracking the current notification being shown myself on my app's code. But just thought it would be cool if I could access this information from the library itself.

Anyways really cool library, thanks for all the work!

[seniv]

Thank you for the detailed description of your case, and sorry for my late response

Unfortunately, in the upcoming v3 release, there is nothing that can help you, but it makes me think about implementing 2 new features:

1. getCurrentNotification method which will return information about the currently visible notification (most likely it would be the parameters that were provided to the showNotification method), or null if there are no notifications currently visible.
2. Priority mechanics, the most obvious behavior that came to my mind is to provide priority parameter with the number as a value, and it will automatically determine the right queueMode depending on the priority of the currently visible notification and the notification that is about to show. Higher priority will have immediate mode, and equal or lower priority will put new notification right after the last notification with the same priority in the queue and use standBy mode.
   For example, you want to show a notification with priority 3. Currently, you have a notification with priority 4 already visible, in this case your queue will look like this:
   3(priority level)
   3
   3 <-- new notification
   2
   1
   And notifications will be shown from top to bottom. Hope that I explained it well enough.

So in theory getCurrentNotification method should be enough to determine the right queueMode manually, while "Priority" mechanism should do everything for you, depending on the priority parameter.

I would be happy to hear your feedback on the features I proposed, will they solve your issue, or not.