[aerogear-dev] Unregistration from push server missing

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:03 PM, TadeasKriz <tkriz at redhat.com> wrote:

> I know that Apple is kinda strict about this but if they have it in system
> it's kinda different story than with Android, which doesn't have this and
> leave it all to developers.
>

yes - that's why the server does support the endpoint - on the client side,
it's optional :)



> So at least for Android it's definitely needed feature. And well that was
> my point from at the first place, that aerogear-android should have this
> feature. And you're right that this is what's the JIRA ticket for, the
> device-side call to server for unregistration.
>

perfect :)


>
> On Jul 15, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
> wrote:
>
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> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:59 PM, TadeasKriz <tkriz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I've created the JIRA subtask:
>>
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-62
>>
>> You said some push networks recommend not to unregister from device.
>> Well, I was more thinking about it like the device will send information to
>> the unified push server and the server will then remove the device from the
>> list of available tokens.
>>
>
>
> Well - Apple is pretty strict about "not following" best practices.
>
> In iOS there is a notification centre. There the user will disable
> "notification" per app (and users know that). And that's exactly why Apple
> has a Feedback Service to query for "invalid" tokens.
>
> Regardless if we all love things or not, I guess for the iOS SDK we will
> not see a "unregister" hook (for those above reasons).
>
> Kinda sucks if a developer's app got's rejected because AeroGear-iOS, and
> its developers :-)
>
>
>> Also the device would unregister from the push network if it should (I
>> think it's valid way with GCM, don't know about others).
>>
>> From the API side, I think it might be added as a method of Registrar. So
>> there would be Registrar#register and Registrar#unregister. What do you
>> think?
>>
>
> yes, I guess that's what the JIRA ticket is for, right ?
>
>
> The UnifiedPush Server does have this API endpoint already:
>
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear.org/blob/master/docs/specs/aerogear-push-rest/DeviceRegistration.asciidoc#unregister-of-a-device-http-delete
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> it is opional, since some push networks recommend not performing "in app
>> unregister" themselves. (eg APNs). There are (APNs)hooks to query for
>> invalid tokens (aka feedback service).
>>
>> For Android SDK, can u file JIRA sub task of AGDROID-35 ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matthias
>>
>> PS: there is no real harm, if payload to push network contains "outdated"
>> tokens.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, July 15, 2013, TadeasKriz wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I'm now trying the unified push with Android and I've noticed, that
>>> there is no way (or I didn't find it?) to unregister the device. Example
>>> real usage: in application settings there might be a checkbox to disable
>>> notifications, so the user probably won't like receiving push messages
>>> which would then be discarded by the device (it'd be a waste of his data
>>> package). It seems to me like it wasn't left out on purpose, but rather
>>> forgotten to be added. Any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
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