[aerogear-dev] [SimplePush] Registration with the UnifiedPush

[Kris Borchers]

On Jul 24, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Kris Borchers <kris at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> in the message spec discussions, a while ago, we agreed that for "triggering" notifications for registered SimplePush clients, the "deviceType" needs to match "web" (see [1] for the spec).
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>> Right now, only a few "metadata" items are submitted to the UnifiedPush Server, using the "registerWithPushServer" (perhaps we should rename it ?):
>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-js/blob/Notifier/src/unified-push/aerogear.unifiedpush.js#L48-L52
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>> However, I have already filed a ticket for that (see [2]), since on Cordova (and similar things) a bit more "metadata" would be nice (since they are really treated as "native" clients, with APNs/GCM setup on the UP server etc)
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>> Now... talking about metadata (including the "deviceType"). The above statement, that the "deviceType" needs to match "web" for SimplePush clients leads to a question:
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>> * Do we want to have ALL SimplePush clients auto-submit the "deviceType":"web", or not ? 
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> So deviceType is required no matter what it's set to, correct?
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> No, we could have the SimplePush clients NOT submitting the "deviceType" value at all (like today).
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> It would be just used, on the sective send, a logical query on the 'selective' send.
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> If "deviceType:["web",.......] is present in the payload - SimplePush is triggered as well. That is fine.
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> right now, I did assume that we want to "auto register" the 'web' device-type for the SP clients, but I can easily remove that assumption. 

Well, I didn't realize you made that assumption so that is why the client isn't currently working with latest UPS. I guess I don't care either way let's just decide what we'll do so I can either update the client or leave it as is. Until then, it's broken.
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>> If NOT, I guess that means there will be NO deviceType for SimplePush clients, on the UnifiedPush server, which is fine.
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>> But once more metadata is possible (e.g. after AGJS-56), I think we than need to ensure that a SP client does not set it's deviceType to something like "winBROwsPhone" :)
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> Hmmm. I could see a situation where users may want this setting to be flexible for tracking.
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> For the "Apache Cordova" with native (GCM and APNs) bits, IMO it may make sense to have a similar rich "registration" API, like the matching native environments have.
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> They may want "web-iOS" if they are using SimplePush in a iOS-Cordova app.
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> For SimplePush on Cordova, I think it does make sense, if they have an option to 'specify' some (custom) device-type as well
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> Not sure. So to answer above, I think there should either be no device type, or if there is, let it be flexible.
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>> -Matthias
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>> [1] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear.org/blob/master/docs/specs/aerogear-push-messages/index.markdown#query-component
>> [2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGJS-56
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