<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">looking good, need to digest it a bit ;)<br><div><div>On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:07 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <<a href="mailto:matzew@apache.org">matzew@apache.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">As discussed on the earlier theard, we have some raw APIs... Below a little summary:</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">
We have a <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">UnifiedPushManager(.java)</code> defined, which is basically a registry for "push enabled" apps (<code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">PushApplication.java</code>). Such a <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">PushApplication</code> is a logical construct on the backend which is allowed/enabled to send notifications to mobile clients. One example could be the "Twitter Backend" (e.g. for push notification on direct messages).</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">Now each of the <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">PushApplication</code> can have a few mobile applications, that receive those push messages (e.g. the offical Twitter iOS client and the offical Twitter Android client). These "mobile apps" are represented - on the server - with the <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">MobileApplication.java</code> class. Usually there is only one iOS app and one Android... <strong>BUT</strong> imagine the case of a "paid/premium app" versus a free app (e.g. something like TwitterPro-iOS and Twitter-free-iOS... <strong>NOTE</strong>: there is NOTHING like that, I just made these two apps up, to explain the concept).</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">Of course there are several installations of the iOS(and Android...) app. Each installation is represented with the<code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">MobileApplicationInstance.java</code> class. Each installation is registered by a "device registration service": The actual app on the device submits its token/regId (and some other infos) to a HTTP endpoint....</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">Now the <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">UnifiedPushManager(.java)</code> is the central API to <em>register</em> PushApps and their mobile views, including (device)registration of installations (-> <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">MobileApplication</code> and <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">MobileApplicationInstance</code>).</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">Any backend app, can now use the <strong>Sender API</strong> to actually send the message to these different devices/appications, from the UnifiedPushManager, assuming they have permission :-)</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">A simple example is here (java code for registration AND sending); Note it's a Unit test.......: <a href="https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/test/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/UnifiedPushManagerTest.java#L41-L81" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none">https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/test/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/UnifiedPushManagerTest.java#L41-L81</a></p>
<h2 style="margin:20px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:24px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif"><a name="so-far-so-good---but-why-this-abstraction-" class="anchor" href="https://gist.github.com/matzew/73d478a42c093e21a6b9#so-far-so-good---but-why-this-abstraction-" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;display:block;padding-left:30px"></a>So far, so good - but why this abstraction ????</h2><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px"><strong>Goal</strong>: We want that any (JBoss/AeroGear powered) mobile application, that is backed by JBoss technology, is able to easily work with push messages. For a JBoss "backend application" it should be as simple as possible, to send messages to its different mobile clients</p>
<h3 style="margin:20px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif"><a name="some-scenarios" class="anchor" href="https://gist.github.com/matzew/73d478a42c093e21a6b9#some-scenarios" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;display:block;padding-left:30px"></a>Some Scenarios</h3>
<ul style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px"><li>MyWarehouseInc-backend can send messages to different "customer" groups (e.g. discounts for only iOS (or only Android) users).</li>
<li>MyInsuranceCorp-backend can send important "info messages" to diffenrent variants of its mobile Applications (e.g. to the MyInsuranceCustomer-APP (regardless of the OS) AND to the app for their own agents (MyInsuranceAgent-APP))</li>
<li>MyPublishing-Company-backend sends updates to all of its apps (free and premium - regardless of the mobile OS). Advanced content is only push to the paying customers...</li><li>A company has different backends (small apps for different tasks) - and these different backends could be able to reach all of the company's mobile apps</li>
</ul><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">So... the <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">Sender</code> somewhat acts as a broker (for accessable apps on the 'registry' <code style="font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Courier,monospace;margin:0px 2px;padding:0px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;white-space:nowrap">UnifiedPushManager</code>)...</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px"><br></p><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">
BTW... none!!!!!!! of the API names are final - happy to hear better names!!!</p><p style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px;margin-bottom:0px!important">
Please provide feedback (here and on the other thread), for missing/wrong/good items.!</p><p style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px;margin-bottom:0px!important">
<br></p><p style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px;margin-bottom:0px!important">Greetings,<br>Matthias</p><p style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px;margin-bottom:0px!important">
<br></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matzew@apache.org" target="_blank">matzew@apache.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
here is, including device registration:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/test/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/UnifiedPushManagerTest.java#L41-L81" target="_blank">https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/test/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/UnifiedPushManagerTest.java#L41-L81</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>All hammered in java... since this is a test - most of the code will be executed, when interacting with HTTP endpoints of the thing;</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, there is no JS application in the test - but we do have an abstraction interface for it:</div>
<div><a href="https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/application/ConnectedJavaScriptApplication.java" target="_blank">https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/application/ConnectedJavaScriptApplication.java</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Connected? Since only "online" JS clients are receiving message - there no real "push to device" for the JS world...</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>
</font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-Matthias</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matzew@apache.org" target="_blank">matzew@apache.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Pushed FIRST/TEST impl + actually test case.....<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api" target="_blank">https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api</a></div><div><br></div><div>YEs.... I have 'xxx'd out the KEY and certs :) <div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matzew@apache.org" target="_blank">matzew@apache.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My UNIT test looks (currently) like:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://gist.github.com/matzew/3d7f9915afd8f6705da5" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/matzew/3d7f9915afd8f6705da5</a></div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
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<div>-M</div></font></span><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matzew@apache.org" target="_blank">matzew@apache.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:06 PM, <a href="mailto:tech4j@gmail.com" target="_blank">tech4j@gmail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tech4j@gmail.com" target="_blank">tech4j@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think this is look really good!<div><br></div><div>Here some thoughts, and/or possible additional use-cases</div>
<div><br></div><div>* How do we want to handle multiple devices for one user?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Instance of 'MobileApplicationInstance'; each device has (per app) a different token;</div>
<div>What the apps do themselves, with multiple installs is something different.</div><div><br></div><div>Twitter, for instance, sends the push-messages to EVERY device - but that's app specific sync</div><div>(yes, i wish there was something like IMAP, for twitter)</div>
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<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div><br></div><div>* How do we want to handle the other side of unified push (non-native)?</div><div>** Might just not be there yet, but want to make sure we're still thinking the same thing :-)</div>
<div>** Would there be an additional abstraction above this for that?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>some sub type of 'MobileApplication' can/will cover that "mobile web" (JS client) side:</div>
<div><a href="https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/application/MobileApplication.java#L23" target="_blank">https://github.com/matzew/ag-unified-push-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/push/application/MobileApplication.java#L23</a></div>
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>* I'm assuming there is no good way for apps to notify you when they are uninstalled?</div>
<div>** As a way of removing clutter in our tables.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>In apple land these are invalid tokens (see <a href="https://github.com/notnoop/java-apns/blob/master/src/main/java/com/notnoop/apns/ApnsService.java#L161" target="_blank">https://github.com/notnoop/java-apns/blob/master/src/main/java/com/notnoop/apns/ApnsService.java#L161</a>)</div>
<div>So, on a scheduled base they can be remove;</div><div><br></div><div>Google has similar API (on their MulticastResult (returned by the sender))</div><div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">
<div><br></div><div>* Push filtering - I would think IDM would be very good here. </div><div>** Sending to roles, groups, etc...</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>have different users (==roles), but not spec'd out</div>
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>** When we store the device and app info what sub-system are you thinking?</div>
<div>*** I know you were using mongo for some of the prototyping</div><div>*** Would be possible to abstract to the IDM?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>yes, it should be possible (desirable) to use IDM - but does not really matter</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the feedback!!!</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Matthias</div></font></span><div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Douglas Campos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qmx@qmx.me" target="_blank">qmx@qmx.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br>
On 13/03/2013, at 10:28, Matthias Wessendorf <<a href="mailto:matzew@apache.org" target="_blank">matzew@apache.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> ome more APIs, for some basic (initial) functionality:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://gist.github.com/matzew/c5fbc23bc97dfead46e1" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/matzew/c5fbc23bc97dfead46e1</a><br>
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</div>I like the current form, but I'm sure we'll get asked about more OO(ish) APIs, like device.send(Message) - is this on the plans?<br>
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> User/Dev enrollment can be addressed by (hopefully) reusing the ag-security.<br>
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</div>+1<br>
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-- qmx<br>
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