Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked

Hello, sorry for the problems you are encountering with our UPS and its client side libraries. I've created a JIRA ticket to capture the problem: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGDROID-565 greetings, Matthias On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin(a)qantel.com&gt; wrote: > My categories no longer work on android because I use ":" characters in > my category names. > > > > Last May aerogear-android-push:3.0.0 was released with Topics and now the > android plugin refuses to accept my category names with non-Topic > compatible characters. > > > > IOS still works with non-Topic compatible characters, but there is a > regression in android. > > > > I warned you. Category names should have been percent encoded before > applying them to the Topic interfaces in the plugin and UPS. It would have > prevented the regression, but nobody did it. > > > > Now notifications are broken on the android version of my app. > > > > If I want to make it work with the current plugin I will have to change > my category names to avoid using non-topic compatible characters. If I > make the change it will affect my android and IOS mobile apps, and I will > have to change the system that posts the notification requests to UPS so it > also changes the names. > > > > If no one responds with a "No, wait, we'll fix it!" that is what I will > do. > > > > - Kelvin > > > > > > *From:* Kelvin Lunsford > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:25 PM > *To:* &#39;aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org&#39; > *Subject:* 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 > <aerogear-users-bounces(a)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(a)qantel.com&gt; > 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(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto: > aerogear-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org] *On Behalf Of *Summers Pittman > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:03 AM > > > *To:* aerogear-users(a)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(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin(a)qantel.com&gt; > 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(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto: > aerogear-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Summers Pittman > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 6:12 PM > To: aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org > Subject: Re: [Aerogear-users] categories have been hijacked > > > > > > >On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Kelvin Lunsford <kelvin(a)qantel.com&gt; > wrote: > >Setting "categories" in the push payload was working for android and ios > in cordova push plugin 1.1.1. > > > >For version 2.0.2 "categories" only works for ios. > > > >It looks like "categories" is being hijacked in android for a GCM > feature called "topics". > > > >I liked "categories". I was using it. Now it's gone. GCM topics is > not a drop-in replacement. It's not the same thing. > > What do categories do that topics do not do? > > >New features should get new names and new commands. > > > >- Kelvin > > > _______________________________________________ > Aerogear-users mailing list > Aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aerogear-users mailing list > Aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aerogear-users mailing list > Aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users > > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf _______________________________________________ Aerogear-users mailing list Aerogear-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-users