[Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked

Mon Sep 12 03:33:16 EDT 2016

Hello,

sorry for the problems you are encountering with our UPS and its client
side libraries. I've created a JIRA ticket to capture the problem:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-565

greetings,
Matthias

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com> wrote:

> My categories no longer work on android because I use ":" characters in my
> category names.
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> Last May aerogear-android-push:3.0.0 was released with Topics and now the
> android plugin refuses to accept my category names with non-Topic
> compatible characters.
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> IOS still works with non-Topic compatible characters, but there is a
> regression in android.
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> I warned you.  Category names should have been percent encoded before
> applying them to the Topic interfaces in the plugin and UPS.  It would have
> prevented the regression, but nobody did it.
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>
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> Now notifications are broken on the android version of my app.
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> If I want to make it work with the current plugin I will have to change my
> category names to avoid using non-topic compatible characters.  If I make
> the change it will affect my android and IOS mobile apps, and I will have
> to change the system that posts the notification requests to UPS so it also
> changes the names.
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> If no one responds with a "No, wait, we'll fix it!" that is what I will do.
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> - Kelvin
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> *From:* Kelvin Lunsford
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:25 PM
> *To:* 'aerogear-users at lists.jboss.org'
> *Subject:* RE: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked
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> You need topic compliant percent encoding/decoding functions to use on
> category names when setting them to/from topic names.
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> You can encode by using the android.net.Uri.encode() function and
> replacing the characters missed by the encode() function.  Uri.decode()
> will work as is.
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> Equivalent encoding would have to be done in java for UPS when it accesses
> a topic.
>
>
>
> - Kelvin
>
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> *From:* aerogear-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:aerogear-users-
> bounces at lists.jboss.org <aerogear-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Summers Pittman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2015 6:26 AM
> *To:* aerogear-users at lists.jboss.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked
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> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com>
> wrote:
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> Summers,
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> What happens if a category name is not GCM topic compatible?
>
> 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
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> Keep the hits coming.
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>
> - Kelvin
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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>
> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi Summers,
>
> GCM topic messages go to all devices registered for the topic. Topic
> notifications cannot be restricted to an alias or list of aliases.
>
> 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.
>
> Requests with aliases and categories can target specific users in a group.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Summers
>
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>
> - Kelvin
>
>
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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>
> wrote:
> >Setting "categories" in the push payload was working for android and ios
> in cordova push plugin 1.1.1.
> >
> >For version 2.0.2 "categories" only works for ios.
> >
> >It looks like "categories" is being hijacked in android for a GCM feature
> called "topics".
> >
> >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.
>
> What do categories do that topics do not do?
>
> >New features should get new names and new commands.
> >
> >- Kelvin
>
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