Allow all parameters for publishing in JSON body (including topic)

[cmeis]

A generic way to publish via POST with JSON body (parameters like in URL parameters and HTTP headers) would be fantastic

As @binwiederhier wrote somewhere else something like this:

curl -d '{
  "topic": "mytopic",
  "message": "This is a message",
  "title": "My title"
}' ntfy.sh

Regarding the question "That's not a bad idea, though I'm not sure I see the benefit over the other publishing methods.":
The concrete use case is an access control system (like in "smart door lock") that has webhooks, but doesn't allow for parameters in the URL. So if I want to post to different topics using a variable there (indicating the door opened for example), I can only do this in the request body.
Right now I solved it by routing the notification from the access control system over a NodeRED instance, which is relaying it to ntfy after massaging body and header to fit.

I hope that's a clear enough usage case. If it's not too hard to implement, this would make sending notifications via ntfy even more versatile. I suppose there would have to be a kind of "universal topic" to post this to, like "ntfy.sh/publish", "ntfy.sh/api/publish" or the like.

[binwiederhier]

I think the feature is sound and easy to implement, though I don't quite know what the API would look like. If there is a universal topic as you say it's easy, but if you want to also publish to the individual topics it's kinda tricky.

Here are a few options:

Request body is assumed to be a JSON request with a well-formed message. Options for endpoint names:

Option 1a:

curl -d '{ "message": "hi", "title": "ho" }' ntfy.sh/mytopic?as=message

Option 1b:

curl -d '{ .. same as above ...}' ntfy.sh/mytopic?body=json

Option 1c:

curl -d '{ .. same as above ...}' ntfy.sh/mytopic/json

Option 1d:

curl -d '{ .. same as above ...}' ntfy.sh/mytopic/message

Option 1e:

curl -d '{ .. same as above ...}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" ntfy.sh/mytopic

Option 1f (topic in the body JSON):

curl -d '{ "topic": "mytopic", ... }' ntfy.sh

[binwiederhier]

I think option 1f (universal endpoint) is the only one I truly like, since it's short and doesn't need a super weird parameter to identify that the body is a JSON message blob. It is kinda tricky to implement though I think.

[cmeis]

Yeah, 1f would be my favourite, too.... Am 15. März 2022, 20:26, um 20:26, "Philipp C. Heckel" ***@***.***> schrieb:

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[binwiederhier]

This is done and will be released with the next server release