[Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked

Summers Pittman supittma at redhat.com
Tue Aug 18 09:25:56 EDT 2015


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com> wrote:

> Summers,
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> What happens if a category name is not GCM topic compatible?
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That is a good question.  Currently you will get a error because it fails
validation.  We've created a JIRA to track this issue here :
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-1501

Keep the hits coming.

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> *From:* aerogear-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:
> aerogear-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org] *On Behalf Of *Summers Pittman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:03 AM
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> *To:* aerogear-users at lists.jboss.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked
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> Kelvin,
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> For your tracking purposes : https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-1493
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com>
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> Hi Summers,
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> GCM topic messages go to all devices registered for the topic. Topic
> notifications cannot be restricted to an alias or list of aliases.
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> The way it worked before, and still works on ios, you can send a command
> to UPS with an "alias" name AND a "categories" name and it will only go to
> devices that have registered using that "alias" name AND that "categories"
> name.  UPS finds which devices meet the selection criteria and push
> notification requests are sent for those devices.
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> Requests with aliases and categories can target specific users in a group.
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> With real "categories" you can segment users into groups, so every device
> can be assigned a category, and sub-groups can be defined by using more
> than one category per device.  This is useful for geographic or
> organizational targeting.
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> I have no problem with GCM topics. Just make it a new feature.  Give me
> back my categories.
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> So the goal isn't to replace or hijack categories with topics. The goal is
> to leverage Google's API fully and transparently to the UPS user so that we
> make fewer calls and provide a better experience.  You have some great use
> cases that haven't been brought up.  Keep in mind that the PRs open right
> now are a "first draft" of the technology.  Feel free to join in on the
> discussion about topics on aerogear-dev.  It is really important we do this
> right and I think you can help with that.
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> From: aerogear-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:
> aerogear-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Summers Pittman
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 6:12 PM
> To: aerogear-users at lists.jboss.org
> Subject: Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked
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> >On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com>
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> >Setting "categories" in the push payload was working for android and ios
> in cordova push plugin 1.1.1.
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> >For version 2.0.2 "categories" only works for ios.
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> >It looks like "categories" is being hijacked in android for a GCM feature
> called "topics".
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> >I liked "categories".  I was using it.  Now it's gone.  GCM topics is not
> a drop-in replacement.  It's not the same thing.
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> What do categories do that topics do not do?
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> >New features should get new names and new commands.
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> >- Kelvin
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