[Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked

Mon Sep 12 12:09:56 EDT 2016

Hey Kelvin,

It's a knowledge[1] bug fixed[2] in AeroGear Android Store cause by a GSON
bug[3]. I'm going to create a new version of AeroGear Android Push library
using the new Store version to fix this bug.

[1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-564
[2] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-android-store/pull/41
[3] https://github.com/google/gson/issues/210

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> IOS still works with non-Topic compatible characters, but there is a
>> regression in android.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now notifications are broken on the android version of my app.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> If no one responds with a "No, wait, we'll fix it!" that is what I will
>> do.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Kelvin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> You need topic compliant percent encoding/decoding functions to use on
>> category names when setting them to/from topic names.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Equivalent encoding would have to be done in java for UPS when it
>> accesses a topic.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Kelvin
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Summers,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Keep the hits coming.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Kelvin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>> *To:* aerogear-users at lists.jboss.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked
>>
>>
>>
>> Kelvin,
>>
>>
>>
>> For your tracking purposes : https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-1493
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin at qantel.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> - Kelvin
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> ---------------------------
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >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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