How to make django messages StackOverflow style?

I'd like to use Django's Messages module, however, I would like my messages to persist until the user clicks an X next to the message as opposed to having messages disappear as soon as the user reloads the page.

I am stumped with two issues: How do I make the messages' context processor not delete the messages once they are accessed? How do I later on delete the message from the DB explicitly once the user clicks on the "remove" button (which invokes an ajax call)?

Thanks!

Solution

In your case django.contrib.messages won't bring you anywhere good. It's a message system inspired by RoR flash system, where messages aren't supposed to stay around

You should create your own messaging system (django-persistent-messages maybe?) that would save messages for registered users in database.

It's a fairly trivial task to implement
a model with a foreign key on User
a context processor to have the messages available in the templates
a view to consume a message
maybe a helper function to create the messages

Don't forget to make it available to others if you do so =)