I see that webhooks now support notifications which is fantastic. Something we really need. However the payload is missing one critical piece of information - the user the notification is for. In this example payload we can see the author of the post that triggered the notification, but not the user…

@Falco or @blake do you have any thoughts on how I can figure out which user a notification is for when received through the new notification webhook?

Just looked at this briefly to see if there was a quick answer, and you are right, it does not look like we have a get api endpoint for fetching an individual notification by id, but that wouldn’t be very efficient to call every time anyways. Most likely this will require a code change to the notif…

We’re using the hosted service at the moment otherwise I’d build my own plugin. Would you folks consider adding the user id/username to then notification payload in the webhook?

I did - hoping to find some extra meta data in there but didn’t find anything user specific. Request URL: https://XXX Request method: POST Accept: */* Connection: close Content-Length: 420 Content-Type: application/json Host: XXX User-Agent: Discourse/2.4.0.beta4 X-Discourse-Instance: https://XXX X…

Checking in to see if you folks have any thoughts/updates. The notification webhook without a target user isn’t really of much use.

Hey guys have you had a chance to review the issue? Is there any hope that we can get the target user id in the notification event?

I’ve created a pr that will add the user_id to the notification webhook json payload: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8195

Hi Albert! I think that is a good idea to have and I’ve created commit that will add the external_id of the user if sso is enabled. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a900c99993aa029230b57d9fd0d96365e1579a21 Hopefully that helps! It will be added to your site next time it is deployed, …

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albert.casademont (Albert Casademont) July 13, 2020, 3:11pm 10

Hi @blake, would it be possible to also add the user external_id? We work with Discourse’s SSO and we don’t really have the discourse user ids in our system.

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