README.md in suj-pusher-0.1.5 vs README.md in suj-pusher-0.2.0
- old
+ new
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```
pusher start|stop|restart|status <options>
```
options:
- - -r <REDIS>: The redis server used to receive push notification messages. The default is localhost:6379.
+ - -H <redis host>: The redis server host or IP address where push messages are stored. Defaults to localhost.
+ - -P <redis port>: Port number of the redis server where push messages are stored. Defaults to 6379.
+ - -b <redis db>: The database number on the redis server to connect to. Defaults to 0.
+ - -n <redis namespace>: A namespace separate pusher queues from others in redis. Defaults to pusher.
+ - -l <logdir>: The directory where logfiles are stored. Defaults to $PWD/logs.
+ - -p <piddir>: The directory where pid files are stored. Defaults to $PWD/pids.
+ - -c <certs>: The directory where we temporarily store APN certs. Defaults to $PWD/certs.
-Note that the daemon will run on your current folder and under the current user. Make sure you cd to a folder (e.g. /var/run/pusher) and that your current user has permissions to create folders/files inside that directory:
+The pusher daemon runs under the current user and current folder. If you specify the logid, piddir and certs folders make sure these exists and that the current user can create/write files inside those folder.
+To start the server run:
+
```
-mkdir /var/run/pusher
-chown pusher_user:pusher_group /var/run/pusher
-cd /var/run/pusher
-/usr/bin/pusher start -r redis://192.168.x.x:6379/namespace
+/path/to/bin/pusher start -H localhost -P 6379 -b 0 -n pusher -p /var/run/pids
```
-The pusher daemon creates a logs, tmp and certs directory in the current path. To check the state of the daemon you may check the logs. We store the APN certs inside the certs directory temporarily during the connection to APN and delete them when the connection is closed. Still make sure this folder is only readable/writeable by the user under which the pusher process is running.
+To stop the server run:
+```
+/path/to/bin/pusher start -H localhost -P 6379 -b 0 -n pusher -p /var/run/pids
+```
+
+If you set a piddir (using -p option) when starting the server then you must supply the same option when stopping or restarting the server.
+
+The certs option (-c) is to temporarily store APN certificates. These are deleted when the APN connection is closed.
+
## Sending Notifications
Once the pusher daemon is running and connected to your redis server you can push notifications by publishing messages to redis. The message format is a simple JSON string.
-
### JSON string format
Example JSON message:
```
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Normally you would send messages to either Android or iOS indenpendently. But the pusher daemon can send the same message to devices on both networks as long as you follow the Apple restrictions. This is because Apple push messages are more limited than GCM.
If your data hash is compatible with the APN standard as described above and you specify a APN cert, a GCM api_key, a list of apn_ids and a list of gcm_ids then the message will be delivered via push notification to all the devices in those lists. Apple will display the notifications using their own mechanisms and for Android you will receive the data hash in a Bundle object as usual. Is your responsibility to extract the data from that bundle and display/use it as you please.
+
+
+#### Sending one message to WNS
+message hash: {
+ wnstype: "type" ,
+ wnsrequeststatus: true,
+ wnsids: ["xxx"],
+ secret: "app-secret",
+ development: false,
+ sid: "secret-id",
+ data: "notif"}
+wnstype: type of the notification to send, posibles values are: "wns/badge", "wns/tile", "wns/toast", "wns/raw"
+data: a string with de notifiaction to send, please use the xml templates provided by Microsoft(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh779725.aspx) for each wnstype listed above.
+secret and sid: App identification credentials provided by microsoft when registering a new application to use wns services.
+wnsrequeststatus: boolean, if true, the response from wns server will have aditional information
+wnsids: jsonArray of target devices.
+
+
+#### Sending one message to WPNS
+message hash: { wptype: "type",
+ wpids: ["xxx"],
+ secret: "unicId",
+ development: false,
+ wpnotificationclass: number,
+ data: notif}
+
+wptype: ype of the notification to send, posible values are: "toast" or "badge", if this parameter is not present, a "raw" type notifications will be sent.
+secret: a unic hash to identify a conection, internal use, each notification sent must have a diferent id
+wpids: jsonArray of ids for target devices
+data: notification data to send, please use de xsml template provided by Microsoft(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202945(v=vs.105).aspx) for each wptype listed above
+
+
+
## Examples
A simple example using ruby code to send a push notification to iOS devices.
```ruby
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# Obtain a redis instance
redis = Redis.new({ host: "localhost", port: 6379})
# Push the message to the *suj_pusher_queue* in the redis server:
-redis.lpush "suj_pusher_msgs", msg_json
+redis.lpush "pusher:suj_pusher_msgs", msg_json
# Notify workers there is a new message
-redis.publish "suj_pusher_queue", "PUSH_MSG"
+redis.publish "pusher:suj_pusher_queue", "PUSH_MSG"
```
-You must push the messages to the *suj_pusher_queue* queue that is the one the Pusher daemon is listening to. Also make sure your message follows the format described on the previous sections.
+First you must push your messages to the *suj_pusher_msgs* queue and then publish a *PUSH_MSG* to the *suj_pusher_queue*. The first is a simple queue that stores the messages and the second is a PUB/SUB queue that tells the push daemons that a new message is available. Also make sure to set the same namespace (e.g. pusher) to the queue names that you set on the pusher daemons.
## Issues
- We have no feedback mechanism. This is a fire and forget daemon that does not tell us if the message was sent or not.
- This daemon has no security at all. Anyone that can push to your redis server can use this daemon to spam your users. Make sure your redis server is only accessible to you and the pusher daemon.
+## Troubleshooting
+
+- You get errors like "Encryption not available on this event-machine", ensure that the eventmachine gem was installed with ssl support. If you are not sure uninstall the gem, install libssl-dev package and re-install the gem again.
+- If you get 401 Unauthorized error on the log when sending notifications via GCM, ensure the key you use has configured the global IP addresses of the pusher daemons as allowed.
+
## TODO
- Implement a feedback mechanism that exposes a simple API to allow users check if some tokens, ids, certs, or api_keys are no longer valid so they can take proper action.
- Find a way to register certificates and api_key only once so we do not need to send them for every request. Maybe add a cert/key registration api.
+- For MPNS add ssl service authentification for unlimited push notifications.