Get notification description outside loop

[wordpressrene]

Could you add the possibility to get the notification description (and to choose whose format) of a specific notification outside the loop? You could change the function bp_get_the_notification_description() to achieve this:

<?php
/**
 * Get full-text description for a specific notification.
 *
 * @since 1.9.0
 *
 * @param BP_Notifications_Notification $notification Notification to get the description for. Optional. Default null.
 * @param string $format Format of the description. Function returns string, if $format is 'string'. Function returns array, if $format is not 'string'. Optional. Default 'string'.
 *
 * @return string|array
 */
function bp_get_the_notification_description( $notification = null, $format = 'string' ) {
        $bp           = buddypress();
        $notification = $notification === null ? $bp->notifications->query_loop->notification : $notification;

        // Callback function exists.
        if ( isset( $bp->{ $notification->component_name }->notification_callback ) && is_callable( $bp->{ $notification->component_name }->notification_callback ) ) {
                $description = call_user_func( $bp->{ $notification->component_name }->notification_callback, $notification->component_action, $notification->item_id, $notification->secondary_item_id, 1, $format, $notification->id );

        // @deprecated format_notification_function - 1.5
        } elseif ( isset( $bp->{ $notification->component_name }->format_notification_function ) && function_exists( $bp->{ $notification->component_name }->format_notification_function ) ) {
                $description = call_user_func( $bp->{ $notification->component_name }->format_notification_function, $notification->component_action, $notification->item_id, $notification->secondary_item_id, 1 );

        // Allow non BuddyPress components to hook in.
        } else {

                /** This filter is documented in bp-notifications/bp-notifications-functions.php */
                $description = apply_filters_ref_array( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', array( $notification->component_action, $notification->item_id, $notification->secondary_item_id, 1, $format, $notification->component_action, $notification->component_name, $notification->id ) );
        }

        /**
         * Filters the full-text description for a specific notification.
         *
         * @since 1.9.0
         * @since 2.3.0 Added the `$notification` parameter.
         *
         * @param string $description  Full-text description for a specific notification.
         * @param object $notification Notification object.
         */
        return apply_filters( 'bp_get_the_notification_description', $description, $notification );
}

[DJPaul]

I'm not convinced generally allowing template loop-specific functions to be used outside a loop via passing in an object. This came up on other tickets in the last few months, and as a project, we're yet to make a decision, so this is going to take a while to move forwards, unfortunately.

[DJPaul]

I'm deciding this is something we don't want to do at the moment, based on no feedback from other contributors that convinces me otherwise.