Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked

You need topic compliant percent encoding/decoding functions to use on category names when setting them to/from topic names. You can encode by using the android.net.Uri.encode() function and replacing the characters missed by the encode() function. Uri.decode() will work as is. Equivalent encoding would have to be done in java for UPS when it accesses a topic. - Kelvin From: aerogear-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Summers Pittman Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 6:26 AM To: aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org Subject: Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin@qantel.com<mailto:kelvin@qantel.com>> wrote: Summers, What happens if a category name is not GCM topic compatible? That is a good question. Currently you will get a error because it fails validation. We've created a JIRA to track this issue here : https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-1501 Keep the hits coming. - Kelvin From: aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org<mailto:aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org> [mailto:aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org<mailto:aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org>] On Behalf Of Summers Pittman Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:03 AM To: aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org<mailto:aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org> Subject: Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked Kelvin, For your tracking purposes : https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-1493 On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma@redhat.com<mailto:supittma@redhat.com>> wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin@qantel.com<mailto:kelvin@qantel.com>> wrote: Hi Summers, GCM topic messages go to all devices registered for the topic. Topic notifications cannot be restricted to an alias or list of aliases. The way it worked before, and still works on ios, you can send a command to UPS with an "alias" name AND a "categories" name and it will only go to devices that have registered using that "alias" name AND that "categories" name. UPS finds which devices meet the selection criteria and push notification requests are sent for those devices. Requests with aliases and categories can target specific users in a group. With real "categories" you can segment users into groups, so every device can be assigned a category, and sub-groups can be defined by using more than one category per device. This is useful for geographic or organizational targeting. I have no problem with GCM topics. Just make it a new feature. Give me back my categories. So the goal isn't to replace or hijack categories with topics. The goal is to leverage Google's API fully and transparently to the UPS user so that we make fewer calls and provide a better experience. You have some great use cases that haven't been brought up. Keep in mind that the PRs open right now are a "first draft" of the technology. Feel free to join in on the discussion about topics on aerogear-dev. It is really important we do this right and I think you can help with that. Summers - Kelvin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org<mailto:aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org> [mailto:aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org<mailto:aerogear-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org>] On Behalf Of Summers Pittman Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 6:12 PM To: aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org<mailto:aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org> Subject: Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked What do categories do that topics do not do? _______________________________________________ Aerogear-users mailing list Aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org<mailto:Aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users _______________________________________________ Aerogear-users mailing list Aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org<mailto:Aerogear-users@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users