[aerogear-dev] [UPS] Advanced Analytics

[Daniel Passos]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Folks !
>
> For AGPUSH-969[1] and to kick off the discussions,  I started a small POC
> mainly focused on the backend. To sum up quickly : we want to know how many
> installations/users has  opened the application after that a Push
> Notification has been touched.
>

Let me see if I understood. UPS will send a message to the client and when
the message be *read* (instead of delivered), the client will send a
message back to the UPS saying: "The message was read"?


> So, the very first thing that had to be done was to give the Push
> Notification a unique identifier, so that we can track it and do the
> metrics on it.
>

+1. Not only us (UPS) but also the backend app


> For that, I have been using an existing model object that we have , the
> PushMessageInformation[2], and that is currently used to provide
> information for our dashboard.
> This object has now some extra fields, like a appOpenCounter etc ...
>
> The ID of this PushMessageInformation is now passed into the payload of
> the Push Message, just before we send it,  this way the client library can
> use this ID to pass extra information to the UPS when a notification is
> touched.
> For this POC, I hijacked the cordova-helloworld, so that it extracts the
> ID from the payload and pass it as header when registering.
>

The message back (from client to UPS) will be send every time the user
_read_ that?


> When the UPS receive the request, it looks for the header and if it exist
> it updates the existing PushMessageInformation instance.
>
> Please note, that for this POC, all is happening on Application level and
> not on Variant level but that can be easily changed. It depends on how
> fined grained we want to have these analytics.
>
> I did a small screencast that shows this in action :
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PseBBJZLz6s&feature=youtu.be
>
> The UPS branch containing the changes is here (the 2 latests commits are
> relevant) :
> https://github.com/sebastienblanc/aerogear-unified-push-server/tree/analytics
>
> The client app is not really relevant since I really hacked badly the app
> (and the push plugin) ;) , however if interested I may share it.
>
> Now, let's discuss :)
>
> Sebi
>
> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-969
> [2]
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/blob/master/model/api/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/api/PushMessageInformation.java
>
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