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Implementation of Role Invites in Open Event Organizer Android App

Open Event Organizer Android App consists of various features which can be used by event organizers to manage their events. Also, they can invite other people for various roles. After acceptance of the role invite, the particular user would have access to features like the event settings and functionalities like scanning of tickets and editing of event details, depending on the access level of the role.

There can be various roles which can be assigned to a user: Organizer, Co-Organizer, Track Organizer, Moderator, Attendee, Registrar.

Here we will go through the process of implementing the feature to invite a person for a particular role for an event using that person’s email address.

The ‘Add Role’ screen has an email field to enter the invitee’s email address and select the desired role for the person. Upon clicking the ‘Send Invite’ button, the person would be sent a mail containing a link to accept the role invite.

The Role class is used for the different types of available roles.

@Data
@Builder
@Type("role")
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
@JsonNaming(PropertyNamingStrategy.KebabCaseStrategy.class)
public class Role {

    @Id(LongIdHandler.class)
    public Long id;

    public String name;
    public String titleName;
}

The RoleInvite class:

@Data
@Builder
@Type("role-invite")
@AllArgsConstructor
@NoArgsConstructor
@JsonNaming(PropertyNamingStrategy.KebabCaseStrategy.class)
public class RoleInvite {

    @Id(LongIdHandler.class)
    public Long id;

    @Relationship("event")
    public Event event;

    @Relationship("role")
    public Role role;

    public String email;
    public String createdAt;
    public String status;
    public String roleName;
}

A POST request is required for sending the role invite using the email address of the recipient as well as the role name.

@POST("role-invites")
Observable<RoleInvite> postRoleInvite(@Body RoleInvite roleInvite);

On clicking the ‘Send Invite’ button, the email address would be validated and if it is valid, the invite would be sent.

binding.btnSubmit.setOnClickListener(v -> {
        if (!validateEmail(binding.email.getText().toString())){            
            showError(getString(R.string.email_validation_error));
            return;
        }
        roleId = binding.selectRole.getSelectedItemPosition() + 1;
        roleInviteViewModel.createRoleInvite(roleId);
});

createRoleInvite() method in RoleInviteViewModel:

public void createRoleInvite(long roleId) {

    long eventId = ContextManager.getSelectedEvent().getId();
    Event event = new Event();
    event.setId(eventId);
    roleInvite.setEvent(event);
    role.setId(roleId);
    roleInvite.setRole(role);

    compositeDisposable.add(
        roleRepository
            .sendRoleInvite(roleInvite)
            .doOnSubscribe(disposable -> progress.setValue(true))
            .doFinally(() -> progress.setValue(false))
            .subscribe(sentRoleInvite -> {
                success.setValue("Role Invite Sent");
            }, throwable -> error.setValue(ErrorUtils.getMessage(throwable).toString())));
}

It takes roleId as an argument which is used to set the desired role before sending the POST request.

We can notice the use of sendRoleInvite() method of RoleRepository. Let’s have a look at that:

@Override
public Observable<RoleInvite> sendRoleInvite(RoleInvite roleInvite) {
    if (!repository.isConnected()) {
        return Observable.error(new Throwable(Constants.NO_NETWORK));
    }

    return roleApi
        .postRoleInvite(roleInvite)
        .doOnNext(inviteSent -> Timber.d(String.valueOf(inviteSent)))
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread());
}

Resources:

API Documentation: Roles, Role Invites

Pull Request: feat: Implement system of role invites

Open Event Organizer App: Project repo, Play Store, F-Droid

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