On 08/28/2013 10:12 AM, Kris Borchers wrote:
As I work more and more toward aligning with the API spec laid out by
Mozilla for SimplePush, I find myself needing to make a major change
to the way we have implemented channel registrations. Basically what I
have found is that our storage and reuse of channels between app
restart/refresh, though meant to be an improvement to performance, is
causing more issues than it's solving.
The Proposal
I would like to only persist the user agent id (UAID) in storage and
only keep the channel registrations in memory while the app is
running. Each time the app starts up, the workflow would be:
* First Start
1. Client Hello => Server
2. Server Ack => Client
3. Client 1 or more channel registrations => Server
4. Server stores channel and sends pushEndpoint => Client
5. Client registers endpont => App Server or UP Server
6. Push messages abound
* Restart / Refresh
1. Client Hello => Server
2. Server recognizes UAID and since no channels were included in
Hello, all existing channels are removed as per the spec and
sends Ack => Client
3. Client 1 or more channel registrations => Server
4. Server stores channel and sends pushEndpoint => Client
5. Client registers endpont => App Server or UP Server
6. Push messages abound
The only possible downside I see here is there will be slightly more
chatter over the network since the registrations will happen every
time the app loads. There should be no performance decrease and may
see a performance boost since we will be eliminating a number of
synchronous calls into localStorage. The main benefit is that this
will allow us to almost completely synchronize our API with Mozilla's
which would then allow for immediate use of one of our apps as a web
app and Firefox OS app with NO modifications.
Any thoughts?
Sounds good. While not 100% related rerunning registration on app
load
is something Google suggests for GCM.
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