So most of you all know my love of shiny objects.  With the release of 0.0.2 of the Admin UI,  i decided to make yesterday( friday. 8/2 ) a day about experimenting.  

A while ago i started to play with Chrome Packaged Apps and sending Push messages to them with GCM for Chrome[1] and how we could integrate that service into the Unified Push Server.   My first attempt back then failed, so i decided to have another go at it.  I'm happy to report that i got it working this time.

I created a chrome branch[2] in my fork of the Push server and also a chrome branch[3] in my fork of the admin UI.

Just a quick rundown of how this messaging works:

1. you create an app in the google api console thing - same as android

2. Then you need to generate a refresh and access token - this is different than android

** the refresh token doesn't expire unless explicitly revoked, but the access token does every 60 minutes(?)

3. Send the message with the client id, client secret( these 2 are generated from step 1 ) and the access token

it is not recommend to get a new access token for every request since there is a limit.

Integrating this into the push server wasn't to bad,  just tedious because of all the interfaces and such.

probably the crappiest code is the actual sender that i wrote( actually taken from the simple push sender  ).   It gets a new access token every time which as i stated before is bad.

I'm not sure if we should store the access token with the timer or what. The model that i created for this has a clientId, clientSecret, and a refreshToken

here is the sample code that i threw together for receiving the notifications[4].  i didn't make any comments or anything it them,  just some things hacked together

I think GCM for chrome is somewhat new.  It would be cool to add this for a 1.1 release or something.  i'm not really sure how much it is used,   but the more networks we can unify the better.

-Luke

1. http://developer.chrome.com/apps/cloudMessaging.html

2. https://github.com/lholmquist/aerogear-unified-push-server/tree/chrome

3. https://github.com/lholmquist/aerogear-unified-push-server-admin-ui/tree/chrome

4. https://github.com/lholmquist/chrome-app-codelab/tree/chromepush/lab2_basic

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