Mozilla PUSH Notification server

Authors:

• Andreas Gal (gal @ mozilla . com)
• Fernando Rodríguez Sela (frsela @ tid . es)
• Thinker Li (tlee @ mozilla . com)
• Guillermo Lopez Leal (gll @ tid . es)

Introduction

The objective of this Push server is to reduce the battery comsuption & network traffic avoiding keep-alive messages. The server could be allocated inside the MNO private network with two network interfaces:

• To connect with user handset
• To connect from Internet

API for third party developers

Register device

-> GET https://NSurl/token
-> Open WebSocket to the same origin as above
-> Send registerUA message through that WS
<- 200 OK
-> RegisterWA
<- 200 OK || 4xx ERROR, reason

Send notification

-> POST https://publicURL/notify/APPtoken
    with a JSON
<- 200 OK || 4xx ERROR, reason

Receive notification:

<- (Through the WS): A JSON.

Documentation

It's on a wiki page, but that doesn't mean that it's updated. We are working on a document.

Requirements / Dependencies

• Node.JS (>= 0.8.x)
• MongoDB (>= 2.2.x)
• RabbitMQ (>= 2.8.x) (with AMQP protocol active)

Node.JS Modules (npm install <module>)

• node-uuid (1.3.x)
• websocket (1.0.x)
• mongodb (1.2.x)
• node-amqp (0.1.x)
• forever-monitor (1.0.x)