[aerogear-dev] Geottagged notifications

Sebastien Blanc scm.blanc at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 05:53:19 EST 2014


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Miguel Lemos <miguel21op at gmail.com> wrote:

> Coherent examples given, related to each specific context. That's what I'm
> talking about.
>
> Now when I read again what I was looking for previously, I say to myself:
> yes, that's obvious...
>
> But when I entered in the Aerogear thing for the first time I thought:
> what a mess! :(
>
Good point ! We are currently trying to enhance the "Getting started" /
"First time" Experience, your feedback just confirms we have to improve
that.

> That said, your work deserves a big kudos ;)
>
Thanks ! And thank you for all your feedback, it's really important for us
:)

> Carry on!
>
> M
> Em 27/02/2014 06:59, "Matthias Wessendorf" <matzew at apache.org> escreveu:
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Miguel Lemos <miguel21op at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I tried it. It's easy.
>>>
>>> Do you know, for me, what's one of the biggest - unexpected - hurdle to
>>> surpass? The information you people give about the URLs to use, etc.; it
>>> varies according to the platform ("context" for using your terminology).
>>> For instance, someone that  is on Cordova / mobile , must use something
>>> different from  another guy targeting etwas anderes... And for a newbie
>>> arriving from outside to your ecosystem it's not so easy as you might think.
>>>
>>
>> The context is a well defined thing in the Java world (it comes from the
>> Servlet Spec). I am not really sure hot to name it better :-(
>>
>> http(s)://server:port/context
>>
>> But I think that all our docs are using the same 'schema' of the URL (the
>> OpenShift blog is an outdated announcement, not really documentation).
>>
>> Where do you think we use the URL totally differently, in our docs (not
>> the outdated OpenShift blog post) ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your support.
>>>
>>
>> You are welcome!
>>
>> We are all happy that it works, and we are also very much willing to
>> improve our docs etc.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing out issues
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Miguel Lemos <miguel21op at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That would be neat if  I understand a simple way to send a  push to a
>>>>>> particular dude's phone. So far I've not yet understood how...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> use an alias that is *unique* (E.g. the user-id in your backend):
>>>>>
>>>>> curl -3 -u "{variantID}:{secret}"
>>>>>     -v -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json"
>>>>>     -X POST
>>>>>     -d '{
>>>>>       "deviceToken" : "someTokenString",
>>>>>       "alias" : "myUniqueString"
>>>>>      }'
>>>>>
>>>>> https://SERVER:PORT/context/rest/registry/device
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, the above does store this string (the alias ) on the device
>>>>> metadata.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh, since you are using Cordova, I translated the generic curl (from
>>>> our REST API doc) to JavaScript:
>>>>
>>>> var pushConfig = {
>>>>     // senderID is only used in the Android/GCM case
>>>>     senderID: "<senderID e.g Google Project ID only for android>",
>>>>     pushServerURL: "<pushServerURL e.g http(s)//host:port/context >",
>>>>     variantID: "<variantID e.g. 1234456-234320>",
>>>>     variantSecret: "<variantSecret e.g. 1234456-234320>",
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     alias: "myUniqueString" // NOTE!! this must be unique to the user. Do not hard-code that string ;)
>>>>     // Recommendation is: username;
>>>>
>>>>     // the user logins to your backend system. After a successful login you should know the username, which can than
>>>>     // be used when the 'JavaScript' for the device registration is being executed;
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> //badge and sound are iOS specific, and ignored on Android
>>>> push.register(successHandler, errorHandler, {"badge": "true", "sound": "true",
>>>>     "ecb": "onNotification", pushConfig: pushConfig});
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>
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>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
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