[aerogear-dev] iOS Variant: Support for Production/Distribution SSL Certificates

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Sounds good.
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>> but i wonder if there would be a case where both could be active at the
>> same time.
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>> for example,  some company has an app that is in production,  now they
>> need to make some modifications to it and want to make sure that they
>> didn't break their push notifications, so they want to send some push
>> notifications to the development version since they have separate
>> development devices.
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>> probably an edge case
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>> Hmmm. I'm not sure how edge that is. Seems like the appropriate
>> development model to be able to test a change while keeping the production
>> version running. I think this is a good case for being able to have both
>> active and would require the ability to distinguish between the two in the
>> Sender API.
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> Kris/Luke
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> as mentioned in [1] the device token on the Production Profile /
> environment is different. If one variant has both options (test/prod), I
> think that there may be some tokens left over (Apple's feedback service
> would not catch that - since it only looks for "invalid" tokens, on the
> actual profile (invalid means: User disabled push, on the device - or
> deleted app).
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> Having a "test" variant allows the user to have the test tokens on a
> different variant, and not being mixed. What's your thoughts on that?
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One more thing, it is kinda odd that (by switching Profiles) the iOS app
becomes a different token.   I guess just allowing one cert/passphrase per
Variant does make more sense...

A boolean flag would indicate if the app is production or not ...

-Matthias



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> -Matthias
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> [1] http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/aerogear-dev/2013-July/003879.html
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>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> That all seems sane to me. +1
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>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 3:57 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
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>> Hello!
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>> right now the iOS variant does _only_ support upload of an "Development
>> SSL Certificate" (see [1]). I'd like to add support for an "Production SSL
>> Certificate" to the iOS Variant model class.
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>> Besides the second certificate, the model class _should_ have a field to
>> reflect the status (is production or not -> isProduction()), so that only
>> one certificate is ACTIVE. Internally the "Sender API" would connect
>> against the differen Apple servers (prod. verus dev), based on the value of
>> the isProduction() method.
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>> Exposing "production" (or "development") on the Sender API would be
>> really ugly. With the above said, the Sender-API remains stable.
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>> The value of "isProduction" would be updateable on the AdminUI (and the
>> underlying RESTful endpoints).
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>> -Matthias
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>> [1]
>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unified-push-server/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/connectivity/model/iOSVariant.java#L38-L41
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