Sending email after POST request with Django and Tastypie

Question

I am using Tastypie to create an API for a Django project. What I'd like to do is to send an email after a POST request to a vouchers resource (creating a new voucher). Does anybody know what's the best solution to this problem?

I am not sure how can I intercept the request and process it. A solution that comes to mind is to override the model's constructor and send the email when the instance is created! I don't know whether this is a good idea or not.

The answer to this question seems a possible solution: Adding to the "constructor" of a django model

Answer 1

Use post_save in Django Signals. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/signals/

You can check the created parameter to know if you need to send an email.