[aerogear-dev] [Unified Push] Java Sender API

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Tue Jun 11 04:24:14 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I start looking at the repo. I have some general questions and then
>>>>> more (not that much implementation detailed ;) ) specific  proposals
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>>>>> *  Is our final goal to propose an implementation that we really want
>>>>> the developers to use or is it more providing a reference implementation of
>>>>> the sender API and developer will most of the time implement their own ?
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>>>> The goal is, to give them a Java Utility to use to for sending. If they
>>>> want, they can still do the HTTP by hand. Ideally we have this "client" for
>>>> other platforms as well:
>>>> * Node.js, Ruby, PHP etc
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>>>>> * How are we going to secure the API ?
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>>>> Once the endpoints are secured, we will leverage that on the client
>>>> side (e.g. function to specifiy the "credentials")
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>>>>> * The API looks like now "fire & forget", do we plan to change that ?
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>>>> It is fire and forget.
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>>>>> I can imagine that people using the sender need to have some
>>>>> "feedback/return value/response" to manage their flows ?
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>>>> Well, we do not really have much control there. Apple, for instance,
>>>> does also not really tell you: "I could not deliver the push message to Mr.
>>>> XYZ". Similar is google.
>>>> They all  have "feedback" service, that's more "here is a list of
>>>> invalid device tokens". This info should NEVER be returned, from our
>>>> Sender-Endpoint.
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>>>> Other cloud providers do similar: HTTP 200 + "Thanks we got your job,
>>>> it is now being processed by our system"
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>>> I agree that we don't have control between "our" systems and
>>> Google's/Apple's networks. But, between our push server and our backend
>>> server, the chance is bigger that the dev has more control.
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>> Not nessacarially, the PushEE could be run by the "ops department", and
>> different groups, within one company just use it to send messages.
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>>>  The thing is that the sender api now "swallow" the http status, just
>>> making the http status available for the backend app using the sender API
>>> will be a nice benefit (there could be no connection between our pushee and
>>> our backend app for instance) ...
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>> If PushEE is not reachable, the client would fail, and will(should:))
>> report that back. This like that (low level http), we should report back.
>> but nothing about the actual send (the communication from PushEE ->
>> PushNetworks)
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> Okay :)  "and will(should:)) report that back" was just what I wanted to
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Ah, - OK.



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>> -M
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>>>>> * You say one will go away, why is that ? Do we want to lean toward a
>>>>> single implementation ?
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>>>> For Java, I do not see a reason in supporting two "client". I did start
>>>> with AsyncHttpClient and RestEasy client. I was hoping to see odds/benefits
>>>> in one....
>>>> Looking at the code, I think I do prefer using the RestEasy inside of
>>>> our Java-Sender....
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>>>>>  We could propose different ones (and in different language, like a
>>>>> vertx mod client)
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>>>> of course, but that's that's outside of the "java lib" we are talking
>>>> about here.  Surely, we can have a vertx-sender, node-sender etc
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>>>>>
>>>>> So, now a bit more specific :
>>>>> I've been forking your repo :
>>>>> https://github.com/sebastienblanc/ag-java-sender/tree/refactoring
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>>>>> To factor more code and make the sender API really unit testable
>>>>> (running without any server) I've moved a bit things and introduced a sort
>>>>> of Client interface that will implement really the http client we will use,
>>>>> this client is then injected in the sender interface.
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>>>> that is nice. The project is simple now, and was written while I was
>>>> hacking the sender endpoints - that way I could avoid sending lot's of
>>>> CURLs ;-)
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>>>>> With Arquillian should be easy to add real integration tests.
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>>>> sounds good
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>>>>>
>>>>> Let's discuss !
>>>>> Sebi
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>>>>>  On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <
>>>>> matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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>>>>>>  Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a FIRST version of the Java Sender API is ready:
>>>>>> https://github.com/matzew/ag-java-sender
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>>>>>> Two implementations, based on different Java HTTP clients:
>>>>>> * RestEasy:
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>>>>>> https://github.com/matzew/ag-java-sender/blob/master/src/main/java/org/aerogear/unifiedpush/resteasy/RestEasyJavaSender.java
>>>>>> * AsyncHttpClient:
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>>>>>> https://github.com/matzew/ag-java-sender/blob/master/src/main/java/org/aerogear/unifiedpush/async/AsyncJavaSender.java
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One will go away, time will tell... not important now...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tests:
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>>>>>> https://github.com/matzew/ag-java-sender/tree/master/src/test/java/org/aerogear/unifiedpush
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> More functionality (e.g. selective send for deviceType,
>>>>>> MobileVariant) will follow, hand in hand with the matching endpoints
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Matthias
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