[aerogear-dev] [UPS] Geolocation Support

[Sebastien Blanc]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

>  What other companies provide geofencing and what do their APIs look like?
> I know Google has some stuff for Android buried in Google Play Services.
>
> In general I think it might be less big brother if instead of the user
> reporting their location we add in metadata to filter incoming messages.
> This will have us sending more metadata but we don't have to worry about
> what if some bad guy compromises the server and start following his
> mother-in-law.
>
Sorry, I'm not sure to understand the alternative you propose.


>
>
>
> On 11/27/2014 11:52 AM, Sebastien Blanc wrote:
>
>  Hi Folks !
>
> During our last f2f we agreed on adding some geolocation support for the
> next UnifiedPush Release (1.1). I would like to start here a thread to
> discuss this topic.
>
> Let's keep in mind : *Crawl, Walk, Run*
>
> I would like to start with a concrete proposition and initiate the
> discussions from there :
>
> <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#installations>
> Installations
> <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#model-change>Model
> Change
>
> The idea is to add 2 new fields to the Installation Object :
>
> double longitude;
> double latitude;
>
>
> These field *should* be optional !
>  <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#registration>
> Registration
>
> When the device registers, along with alias, categories etc ... it will
> also be possible to pass a latitude and longitude.
>
> Later, we will probably offer a endpoint to update these properties. PUT
> /registry/device/{token}
>  <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#sender>
> Sender
> <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#server-side>Server
> Side
>
> We need to extend the current sender API to be able to add geolocation as
> a criteria. I see that as something like :
>
> {
>   "message":{
>     "alert":"HELLO!
>   },
>   "criteria":{
>    "geolocation":
>        {
>       "latitude" : 40.2566
>       "longitude": 2.36556
>       "within" : 5
>       "unit" : "Km" // optional, default is Km
>        }
>   }
> }
>
>
> In this example, the Push Notification will be sent only to devices within
> a radius of 5 km of the supplied location.
>
> On the implementation side, I think it make sense to use Hibernate Search
> since it has nice support forSpatial queries
> <https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/4.2/reference/en-US/html/spatial.html>
> .
>
> <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#sender-client>Sender
> Client
>
> The different Sender Clients (Java, Node.js, .net) should be updated
> accordingly.
>  <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#client-sdks>Client
> SDKs
>
> In this fisrt iteration, the registration code would to be updated to
> include latitude and longitude for :
>
>    - iOS (Including Safari ? )
>    - Android ( Including Chrome Apps ?)
>    - JS UPS-SPS Lib
>    - Cordova Plugin
>    - Amazon
>    - Windows
>
> Retrieving the current position of the device is not in scope of this
> first version, later we could offer some features around that.
>
> There are some jiras to track these tasks :
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-828
>
> Comments and questions welcome !
>
> Sebi
>
>
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