Re: [aerogear-dev] [UPS] Geolocation Support

On 12/01/2014 10:57 AM, Sebastien Blanc wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > What other companies provide geofencing and what do their APIs look > like? > I know Google has some stuff for Android buried in Google Play Services. > > In general I think it might be less big brother if instead of the user > reporting their location we add in metadata to filter incoming messages. > This will have us sending more metadata but we don't have to worry about > what if some bad guy compromises the server and start following his > mother-in-law. > Sorry, I'm not sure to understand the alternative you propose. I don't like the push server knowing every user's location.

Instead of the push server deciding to send to a user based on her location the push server should send a "filter" property with the message the client can use to determine if it should show the message. > > > > On 11/27/2014 11:52 AM, Sebastien Blanc wrote: > > Hi Folks ! > > During our last f2f we agreed on adding some geolocation support for the > next UnifiedPush Release (1.1). I would like to start here a thread to > discuss this topic. > > Let's keep in mind : *Crawl, Walk, Run* > > I would like to start with a concrete proposition and initiate the > discussions from there : > > <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#installations... > Installations > <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#model-change&... > Change > > The idea is to add 2 new fields to the Installation Object : > > double longitude; > double latitude; > > > These field *should* be optional ! > > <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#registration> > Registration > > When the device registers, along with alias, categories etc ... it will > also be possible to pass a latitude and longitude. > > Later, we will probably offer a endpoint to update these properties. PUT > /registry/device/{token} > <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#sender> > Sender > <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#server-side&g... > Side > > We need to extend the current sender API to be able to add geolocation as > a criteria. I see that as something like : > > { > "message":{ > "alert":"HELLO! > }, > "criteria":{ > "geolocation": > { > "latitude" : 40.2566 > "longitude": 2.36556 > "within" : 5 > "unit" : "Km" // optional, default is Km > } > } > } > > > In this example, the Push Notification will be sent only to devices > within a radius of 5 km of the supplied location. > > On the implementation side, I think it make sense to use Hibernate Search > since it has nice support forSpatial queries > <https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/4.2/reference/en-US/html/spatial.... > . > > <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#sender-client... > Client > > The different Sender Clients (Java, Node.js, .net) should be updated > accordingly. > <https://gist.github.com/sebastienblanc/d89e41b72c9de537dbde#client-sdks&g... > SDKs > > In this fisrt iteration, the registration code would to be updated to > include latitude and longitude for : > > - iOS (Including Safari ? ) > - Android ( Including Chrome Apps ?) > - JS UPS-SPS Lib > - Cordova Plugin > - Amazon > - Windows > > Retrieving the current position of the device is not in scope of this > first version, later we could offer some features around that. > > There are some jiras to track these tasks : > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-828 > > Comments and questions welcome ! > > Sebi > > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing listaerogear-dev@lists.jboss.orghttps://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > > > > -- > Summers Pittman > >>Phone:404 941 4698 > >>Java is my crack. > > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing listaerogear-dev@lists.jboss.orghttps://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev -- Summers Pittman >>Phone:404 941 4698 >>Java is my crack. _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev