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Sayed Jalil Hassan
Sayed Jalil Hassan

Reputation: 2595

Dynamically setting SENDER_ID in GCM

I am trying to set the project sender id dynamically by fetching it from a server but it throws the invalid sender id exception. I am fetching the sender id from server in the base Application class to make sure i get it before the application launches and i have also overrided the getSenderIds() method in GCMIntentService. 

    public GCMIntentService() {  
        super();
    }

    @Override
    protected String[] getSenderIds(Context context) {
         String[] ids = new String[1];
         ids[0] = SENDER_ID;
         return ids;
    }

But i am getting the invalid sender id exception. I'd would really appreciate if some one could give me an informed opinion on how to set the sender id dynammically from a server.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 478

Answers (1)

Sayed Jalil Hassan
Sayed Jalil Hassan

Reputation: 2595

Ok i managed to do it my self. I'll try to explain it. So, firstly i edited the getSenderIds() method like this: 

     @Override
    protected String[] getSenderIds(Context context) {

            updateSenderIdTask(context);
            String[] ids = new String[1];
            ids[0] = getSenderId(context);
            return ids;
    }

Previously i had set the ids[0] to a variable SENDER_ID that i would set inside the updateSenderIdTask method. The invalid sender id exception was thrown because GCM would access the SENDER_ID variable before the updateSenderIdTask method would get executed even though i had called it inside the base application class. So, i called the updateSenderTask inside the getSenderIds overrided method to make sure i fetch the id from server before GCM uses it. To double check it, i set the ids[0] to a local method getSenderId. Here is the implementation for it: 

    static String getSenderId(Context context) {

            CustomSharedPrefs prefs = CustomSharedPrefs.getInstance(context);
            if (prefs.getString(Constants.SENDER_ID).equals("0")
                    || prefs.getString(Constants.SENDER_ID) == null) {
                updateSenderIdTask(context);
            }
            Log.e("returned sender_id", prefs.getString(Constants.SENDER_ID));
            return prefs.getString(Constants.SENDER_ID);

}

The updateSenderIdTask method fetches the id from server and stores it in a shared preference variable.

Upvotes: 1

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