Push Notifications with my appserver

Krille

Hi there. I am new here and using Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 5 for two weeks now. Its great but Im missing notifications for xmpp. So I was reading in the official Ubuntu Touch documentations, how to build a simple push notification client:
https://docs.ubuntu.com/phone/en/platform/guides/push-notifications-client-guide

But my questions are: Does this still work and what is the url from the current Push server from Ubports?in

advocatux

@krille hi, see https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-push

Krille

Thank you, but it seems that the examples dont work. In the config of the example server is still "push.ubuntu.com". Is this still correct?

Krille

Ah, I have found it. Its https://push.ubports.com/notify
So, I will try to repair the examples now

advocatux

@krille I've asked in the Telegram SG and they told me that push.ubuntu.com was shutdown, and that the code/docs haven't been updated.

advocatux

@krille I've made a PR to fix the wrong info, if you see anything else please say it here and I'll fix it too.

Krille

Thank you
The last days I was trying to create a push notification. The example client seems to work but the server does not want to run. I get always errors about mongodb and there is no documentation, how to install dependencies and Im not a pro with nodejs ...
However I have tried to make a simple POST with curl:
curl -d'{"appid":"com.ubuntu.developer.ralsina.hello","expire_on":"2018-05-01T08:33:00.000Z","token":"MYSECRETTOKEN","clear_pending": true,"replace_tag": "tagname","data": {"id": 43578,"timestamp":1409583746,"sender": "Bot","snippet": "Hello World!"}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://push.ubports.com/notify

I have got the token from the clickable logs, but the response from push.ubports is always {"error":"unauthorized","message":"Unauthorized"}. Does anyone know, what have I done wrong?

Krille

Hey, I have got it to create a working example!!

https://github.com/ChristianPauly/ut-pushclient-example

I have reimplemented the example code snippets from the ancient Ubuntu docs plus a button which sends the POST request and now it works inside the app. This example does not need a server to send push notifications. Maybe I can write a more polished tutorial for other developer in the next days.