[aerogear-dev] safari push

[Sebastien Blanc]

This is really cool and thanks for these tons of info !
Regarding the overlap between the ios and safari variant, could you open a
ticket so that we keep track of it.
Seb



On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com>wrote:

> so i started to play with Safari Push notifications, here is my experience:
> <https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/a7080e4a6189a202d291#setup>Setup
>
> like iOS, you need to login to the dev portal and create an application
> ID, in this case a website ID, then do all the same things with certifcates
> and such.
>
> the next part is you need to create a "push package" that either resides
> on the server your "website/webapp" is on as a .zip, or created dynamically
> at runtime. more on this later
>
> The push package contains some things that are ultimately signed with your
> create certificate.
>
> here is a link for more detail on the push package pp link<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/NotificationProgrammingGuideForWebsites/PushNotifications/PushNotifications.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40013225-CH3-SW1>
>
> <https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/a7080e4a6189a202d291#the-client-and-server>The
> client and server
>
> Safari 7 on Mavericks ships with some new API's for doing push.
>
> the first:
>
> window.safari.pushNotification.requestPermission(url, websitePushID,
> userInfo, callback);
>
> *url - a https url to a webservice *websitePushID - website push ID
> created in the dev console *userInfo - just some metadata if you want
> *callback - yup, it's asynchronous
>
> so when this call is made, safari will make a POST to an endpoint like
> this:
>
> webServiceURL/version/pushPackages/websitePushID
>
> this is where you would serve your push package with the application/zip content
> type header thing
>
> if all goes well with the push package, safari will ask the user to allow
> notifications, if the user allows them, then a POST to this endpoint happens
>
> webServiceURL/version/devices/deviceToken/registrations/websitePushID
>
> and the "device token" is then returned in the callback from above
>
> a DELETE sent to that same endpoint if a user removes permissions.(
> haven't tried this yet )
>
> if any error happens during any of these calls, this endpoint is POST'ed to
>
> webServiceURL/version/log
>
> here is my repo that is running on openshift( the easist way to get https
> since safari doesn't like self signed certs )
>
> https://github.com/lholmquist/safaripush
>
> the hardest part of this whole things is the actual setup of the push
> package
>
> here is a repo i found that helped a bit, and apple also has a file that
> tries to help
>
> https://github.com/connorlacombe/Safari-Push-Notifications
>
> yes, i know, php.
>
> i'm in the process of writing a node version, and yes, i've seen this one
> https://npmjs.org/package/web-push-package
> <https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/a7080e4a6189a202d291#ups>UPS
>
> So the good news is that the developer has to do all that stuff before
> they interact with the UPS.
>
> Safari uses APNs( production only gateway ), but the payload is slightly
> different.
>
> {
>     "aps": {
>         "alert": {
>             "title": "Flight A998 Now Boarding",
>             "body": "Boarding has begun for Flight A998.",
>             "action": "View"
>         },
>         "url-args": ["boarding", "A998"]
>     }
> }
>
> title and body are required
>
> i sent a PR to get this updated in the java_apns thing
> https://github.com/notnoop/java-apns/pull/135
>
> so we'll see what happens there
>
> there is a lot of duplication in the UPS for the APN's stuff, i just
> wanted to get things to work first, but iOS and Safari share almost
> everything.
>
> So maybe we need a more general APNs variant/sender whatever. i'm
> javascript dude, so my java skills are a bit rusty
>
> i have a branch of the UPS where i am playing with this here
> https://github.com/lholmquist/aerogear-unified-push-server/tree/safaripush
>
> the update UI is here
> https://github.com/lholmquist/aerogear-unified-push-server-admin-ui/tree/safarpush
>
> the modified java_apns is here
>
> https://github.com/lholmquist/java-apns/tree/safari_push
>
> there might be things missing, i'm just trying to download my brain
>
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