[aerogear-dev] AeroGear Push Message Format

[Matthias Wessendorf]

somehow the device needs to say: "I belong to android variant"

besides the @Id /PK, we can have a second field / column that represents:
* PushAppID
* VariantID


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On Friday, May 31, 2013, Lucas Holmquist wrote:

> something that i was thinking about after doing some examples is that i'm
> not sure how i feel about using the PK's of each table as the identifier to
> register/broadcast clients.
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> We are sort of giving meaning to data that really shouldn't have meaning.
>  it should really only be used to identify the row.  It might be better to
> have another key on each table/object that is the identifier.
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> So in one of the examples i did,  the app on the device will register the
> device with the push server,  but i needed to also include the id of the
> variant instance
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> i guess i'm thinking if someone migrates their database,  these keys could
> get messed up.
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> wdyt?
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> On May 28, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
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> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com>wrote:
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> in selective push is:
> ==> variant: iOS  + alias: mwessendorf
> a valid criteria too?
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> yes. let me update the related doc(s)
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> On 28 May 2013 08:51, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 28 May 2013 08:48, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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> TYPO:
> ==> variant: iOS (since a PushAPP _might_ have only one iOS variant) +
> deviceType:iPadMini  + alias: mwessendorf
> or
> ==> variant: iOS (since a PushAPP _might_ have only one iOS variant) +
> deviceType:iPhone  + alias: mwessendorf
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> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:
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> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com>wrote:
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> When doing selective push query, is there any overlap between mobile
> variant (which I understand like mobile type which contains certificates)
> and device type?
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> MobileVariant (or call it type) is something like "Android", or "iOS".
> deviceTypes would be iPad, iPod, iPhone, iWatch :)  - or "Android Table",
> "Andrpid phone", android what not
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> Sure.... ideally there are several variants:
> - iOS iPhone 5 optimised app in the app store
> - iOS iPhone 4s optimised app in the app store
> - iOS iPhone 3 optimised app in the app store
> - iOS iPad mini optimised app in the app store
> etc :)
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> But, if there is only one variant, it's totally valid to install an iOS
> application (from the appstore), on an iPad and an iPhone;
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> Both aimed at defining categories.
>  Are those categories defined and fixed in the spec or can they be
> extended?
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> I don't understand categories, here
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> Can we do a selective push based on mobileType=mobile variant and
> alias=john at gmail?
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