Django Anexia SMS Gateway

A django module to send short messages via the Anexia SMS gateway (ASGW). It requires an active Anexia Engine subscription and a "ready to use" configured "sender" within your web service.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/anexia-it/django-anexia-sms-gateway@main

In the project's settings.py add the access token configuration:

# Anexia SMS Gateway settings (ASGW)
ASGW_ACTIVE = True
ASGW_API_TOKEN = "your-asgw-api-token"

Usage

Call the send_sms method wherever you want to trigger a short message:

send_sms(message="SMS content", destination="+43123456789")

Translation (message)

If you provide a translatable message string be sure to use ugettext ("gettext_lazy" would not be triggered on time):

from django.utils.translation import ugettext

send_sms(message=ugettext("Translatable SMS content"), destination="+43123456789")

Recipient phone number (destination)

The recipient's phone number (=destination) must consist of prefix + followed by 1 to 14 digits. Otherwise the ASGW API will return an error.

Phone number on model

In case you store the phone number on a model (e.g. User), we recommend direct validation via RegexValidator, e.g.:

from django.core.validators import RegexValidator
from django.db.models import CharField
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

phone = CharField(
    _("phone number"),
    max_length=15,
    blank=True,
    help_text=_("Prefix '+' followed by 1-14 digits, e.g. '+436641234'"),
    validators=[
        RegexValidator(
            r"^\+\d{1,14}$",
            _("Phone number must be entered in the format: '+123456789'. Prefix '+' with 1 to 14 digits allowed."),
        )
    ],
)