Structuring GCM messages in PushSharp 4.0

Question

I'm somewhat confused in how I'm supposed to structure the message body for a GCM push notification using PushSharp. The docs as well as the test files in the GitHub repo show what looks to be the message structure as this:

            broker.QueueNotification (new GcmNotification {
                RegistrationIds = new List<string> { 
                    regId
                },
                Data = JObject.Parse ("{ \"somekey\" : \"somevalue\" }")
            });

I've been using Postman for testing in which I send a message in the following JSON format to https://gcm-http.googleapis.com/gcm/send.

{
    "to": "000-0000-mytoken-foo",
    "notification" : {
        "title" : "Push Test Notification",
        "body" : "GCM Test Push",
        "icon" : "icon",
        "color" : "#FF4081"
    }

}

Is the 'to' and the 'notification' sections of the message already taken care of by the framework? Based off the examples I've seen it seems as though I only need to enter the key:value pairs of the notification object but I can't seem to find where that is stated or an example of an actual message in the docs. I'm using the newest version (4.x) of PushSharp.

Answer 1

Hi there you can go like this

var config = new GcmConfiguration("senderKey", "apiKey", null);
config.GcmUrl = "https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send"; //!!!!!gmc changed to fcm;)

var gcmBroker = new GcmServiceBroker(config);
gcmBroker.Start();

_gcmBroker.QueueNotification(new GcmNotification
                {
                    RegistrationIds = new List<string> { "YourDeviceToken" },
                    Notification = JObject.Parse(
                        "{" +
                            "\"title\" : \"" + yourMessageTitle + "\"," +
                            "\"body\" : \"" + yourMessageBody + "\"," +
                            "\"sound\" : \"mySound.caf\"" +
                        "}") ,
                    Data = JObject.Parse(
                        "{" +                            
                            "\"CustomDataKey1\" : \"" + yourCustomDataValue1 + "\"," +
                            "\"CustomDataKey2\" : \"" + yourCustomDataValue2 + "\"" +
                        "}")
                });

I did not test if the custom data values are arriving but the notification does:) The items starts with "your" are your dynamic arguments like parameters that you pass to that method etc. The question asked long time ago but i started to use pushsharp just now :) Hope this helps to PushSharp users.