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kYuZz
kYuZz

Reputation: 1732

Sending push notifications to all users

This may be a silly question, but I cannot find a way to send push notifications to all users with Parse.com. I can send notifications to specific channels though.

I tried with

channels: []

but this yields an error.

What's the exact JSON to send push notifications to all users? I'm using the REST API.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 936

Answers (3)

Vincent
Vincent

Reputation: 3489

Just include "where" and no conditions.

{
    "where": {
    },
    "data": {
      "alert": "Willie Hayes injured by own pop fly."
    }
}

The full curl commands:

curl -X POST \
  -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: YOURID" \
  -H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: YOURKEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "where": {
        },
        "data": {
          "alert": "Willie Hayes injured by own pop fly."
        }
      }' \
  https://api.parse.com/1/push

Upvotes: 0

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 1

vb: 

postString = "{""where"": {""deviceType"": ""android""}, ""data"": { ""alert"": """ + pushMessage + """}}"`

c#: 

postString == "{\"where\": {\"deviceType\": \"android\"}, \"data\": { \"alert\": \"" + pushMessage + "\"}}"

Upvotes: 0

soulshined
soulshined

Reputation: 10572

Below is an example to send to default [all users] or no channels essentially. 

{"data": { "alert": "Alert Message", "sound": "somesoundfile", "badge": "Increment" },"where": { "deviceType": "ios" }}

You can check out their documentation for other tags they support like parseVersion, appName, appVersion etc etc

Edit

To send to all devices you simply don't include the where statement: That was just an example for further customization. Because platforms handle notifications differently and offer different functionalities not all instances are translated. However, here is an example to target all platforms without prejudice:

 '{ //not mandatory but just another visual for customizing
    "channels": [
      "Some Channel"
    ],
    "data": {
      "alert": "Alert Message", //not platform specific
      "badge": "Increment", //platform specific iOS
      "sound": "somesoundfile", //platform specific iOS
      "title": "We Pushed to Everyone!" //platform specific Android
    }
  }'

Upvotes: 1

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