Hi,
in the message spec discussions, a while ago, we agreed that for "triggering" notifications for registered SimplePush clients, the "deviceType" needs to match "web" (see [1] for the spec).
Right now, only a few "metadata" items are submitted to the UnifiedPush Server, using the "registerWithPushServer" (perhaps we should rename it ?):
However, I have already filed a ticket for that (see [2]), since on Cordova (and similar things) a bit more "metadata" would be nice (since they are really treated as "native" clients, with APNs/GCM setup on the UP server etc)
Now... talking about metadata (including the "deviceType"). The above statement, that the "deviceType" needs to match "web" for SimplePush clients leads to a question:
* Do we want to have ALL SimplePush clients auto-submit the "deviceType":"web", or not ?
If NOT, I guess that means there will be NO deviceType for SimplePush clients, on the UnifiedPush server, which is fine.
But once more metadata is possible (e.g. after AGJS-56), I think we than need to ensure that a SP client does not set it's deviceType to something like "winBROwsPhone" :)
-Matthias