[aerogear-dev] UnifiedPush: API for sending notifications to SimplePush clients/channels

[Sebastien Blanc]

This change makes totally sense for me , so I'm +1



On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for my upcoming work on AGPUSH-320<https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-320> I
> did think a bit about our current API, especially how the SimplePush part
> is looking today...
>
> When sending a (SimplePush) notification via the UnifiedPush today it
> looks like:
>
> curl -3 -u "{PushApplicationID}:{MasterSecret}"
>    -v -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json"
>    -X POST
>    -d '{
>        "simple-push": {
>          "SomeCategory":"version=123",
>          "anotherCategory":"version=456"
>        }
>      }'
> https://SERVER:PORT/CONTEXT/rest/sender
>
> This (currently) implies the fact that only *one* category is possible,
> per channel/device (will change, as mentioned in above JIRA). But... I
> think this can lead to some really stupid use-case:
>
> "simple-push": {
>   "european_financialNews":"version=456",
>   "earthquake_bayarea":"version=789"
> }
>
> A mix like that will not happen, I'd assume... But for me the point is...
> it really does not make sense to send a few notifications for *totally
> different* channels, on *ONE* request...
>
> This is similar to something like where you send *ONE* notification to
> two (or more) totally different native apps (e.g. weatherApp-iOS and
> WhatsApp).
>
> Not sure what kinda back that really wants <https://github.global.ssl.fastly.net/images/icons/emoji/smile.png>
>
> My suggestion is to change the API a bit, and make it more like we treat
> the native Android/iOS clients (besides the version limitation from
> SimplePush):
>
> curl -3 -u "{PushApplicationID}:{MasterSecret}"
>    -v -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json"
>    -X POST
>    -d '{
>        "category" : ["German Bundesliga", "UEFA ChampionsLeague"],
>        "message": {
>          "alert":"Goal by Marco Reus!",
>          "sound":"default"
>        },
>        "simple-push": "version=someVersionNumberString"
>      }'
>
> https://SERVER:PORT/CONTEXT/rest/sender
>
> The simple-push key just takes the *version=FOO* thing (or maybe just the
> versionNumberString...), instead of submitting a map, where we pass *
> different* versions for *different* channels.
>
> The rest is pretty much similar to what we already do today (at least for
> Android/iOS):
>
>    - We apply some criteria (sure *this* example already has multiple
>    categories...)
>    - Based on the different criteria we find all the *Installations* (==
>    devices/connected clients) we want.
>
> *Note:* If no criteria has been specified, we deliver the message (for SP
> the given version) to all installations of all registered variants... (like
> we do it already today)
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> -Matthias
>
> --
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>
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