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 ?):

https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-js/blob/Notifier/src/unified-push/aerogear.unifiedpush.js#L48-L52

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 ? 

So deviceType is required no matter what it's set to, correct?

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" :)

Hmmm. I could see a situation where users may want this setting to be flexible for tracking. They may want "web-iOS" if they are using SimplePush in a iOS-Cordova app. Not sure. So to answer above, I think there should either be no device type, or if there is, let it be flexible.

-Matthias

[1] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear.org/blob/master/docs/specs/aerogear-push-messages/index.markdown#query-component

[2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGJS-56

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