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Apple APNS: Sandbox/Live support? ssl certificate format?
6 years 11 months ago - 6 years 11 months ago #6140
by phuture
Hi Luigi, Thanks for the answers.
Any chance of adding a 4th option of "Any" or "All"?
In the real world a Joomla Website is likely to have both Android & iOS Apps.
Joomla components shouldn't need to know, or care, what platform any one user is using.
I would expect jbackend, as it holds the data, to do the look up on platforms not the other components.
You mean "jBackendHelper::createNotification()" ?
Yes, I found that and that's what I used to create my own notification plugin for my component.
I was concerned though that it wasn't referenced in the documentation (I might have missed it, I missed the App docs on .PEM files
)
If that function is meant to be called and it will always remain available in future updates then that's fine, I have the solution I want.
I have another feature request.
At the moment notifications are single use.
Would be possible to create static, use many times, notifications which have a label, or ID, much like the appcode?
That way I can set up the notification with static content for common notifications and then just add users (or groups, or devices) to it (using it's id as ref) rather than creating multiple notifications.
Each time the scheduler gets called it flushes out and empties the recipients when it sends to them.
This would be a much more scalable solution I think.
Thanks again,
George
Replied by phuture on topic Apple APNS: Sandbox/Live support? ssl certificate format?
Hi George,
Hi Luigi, Thanks for the answers.
1) "Platform Type". I assumed (wrongly) that "Generic" meant any platform. I have only 1 registered, iOS, device for testing and if I create a notification to test it, it doesn't get sent if I have generic selected as the platform.
I have to specifically state "iOS" as the platform and then it works fine.
This doesn't work well as jBackend should, I think, be abstracting the notifications and hardware. The software sending user notification shouldn't need to know what platform type the user is using.
No, generic is a kind of "default" value that could be useful in the next future (e.g. web push).
Any chance of adding a 4th option of "Any" or "All"?
In the real world a Joomla Website is likely to have both Android & iOS Apps.
Joomla components shouldn't need to know, or care, what platform any one user is using.
I would expect jbackend, as it holds the data, to do the look up on platforms not the other components.
2) I don't understand why the programmatical creation of notifications needs to be via the REST API?
Why is there no direct JPluginHelper / JDispatcher ->trigger support?
I've written my own into my custom jbackend plugin for notifying a single user which works ok with the exception of (1) above. I would have expected this to be part of the standard package though?
No, there is and I already use it for my customers, but probably I should document it in the developer section. If you look at the helper.php on the site part (not admin) you will find a well documented function to create and add notifications to queue programmatically. This is the most flexible way to provide this feature to any developer for me. I have already used it to create push, as example, when a type of content is added, when a balance entry is created, when a form is compiled, and so on...
You mean "jBackendHelper::createNotification()" ?
Yes, I found that and that's what I used to create my own notification plugin for my component.
I was concerned though that it wasn't referenced in the documentation (I might have missed it, I missed the App docs on .PEM files
)If that function is meant to be called and it will always remain available in future updates then that's fine, I have the solution I want.
I have another feature request.
At the moment notifications are single use.
Would be possible to create static, use many times, notifications which have a label, or ID, much like the appcode?
That way I can set up the notification with static content for common notifications and then just add users (or groups, or devices) to it (using it's id as ref) rather than creating multiple notifications.
Each time the scheduler gets called it flushes out and empties the recipients when it sends to them.
This would be a much more scalable solution I think.
Thanks again,
George
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6 years 11 months ago #6141
by admin
Replied by admin on topic Apple APNS: Sandbox/Live support? ssl certificate format?
Hi George.
Probably, not sure yet. I am just now working on the same thing but for node.js and with Firebase (a personal project, btw), and I am falling in love with it. So probably I will switch the push plugin on this platform too. And in this case your request will be automatically satisfied.
Of course yes. This is the reason I created it...
I think yes. It could be possible to add "placeholders" for each app, or maybe common shared placeholders, that could be used in push item. I will think about it in the next version (the one with FCM support).
Kind regards,
Luigi
Any chance of adding a 4th option of "Any" or "All"?
In the real world a Joomla Website is likely to have both Android & iOS Apps.
Joomla components shouldn't need to know, or care, what platform any one user is using.
I would expect jbackend, as it holds the data, to do the look up on platforms not the other components.
Probably, not sure yet. I am just now working on the same thing but for node.js and with Firebase (a personal project, btw), and I am falling in love with it. So probably I will switch the push plugin on this platform too. And in this case your request will be automatically satisfied.
If that function is meant to be called and it will always remain available in future updates then that's fine, I have the solution I want.
Of course yes. This is the reason I created it...
Would be possible to create static, use many times, notifications which have a label, or ID, much like the appcode?
That way I can set up the notification with static content for common notifications and then just add users (or groups, or devices) to it (using it's id as ref) rather than creating multiple notifications.
Each time the scheduler gets called it flushes out and empties the recipients when it sends to them.
This would be a much more scalable solution I think.
I think yes. It could be possible to add "placeholders" for each app, or maybe common shared placeholders, that could be used in push item. I will think about it in the next version (the one with FCM support).
Kind regards,
Luigi
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