marcospividori / push-notify

A server-side library in Haskell for sending push notifications to devices running different OS.

Libraries for communicating through Push Notifications:

3 libraries to make it easy to send push notifications to mobile devices. They are available on Hackage:

• push-notify : This library offers a simple API for sending notifications through APNS, GCM and MPNS. 1

• push-notify-ccs : This library offers an API for sending/receiving notifications through CCS (XMPP - Google Cloud Messaging). 2

• push-notify-general : This library offers a general API for sending/receiving notifications, and handling the registration of devices on the server. It provides a general abstraction which can be used to communicate through different services as APNS, GCM, MPNS, hiding as much as possible, the differences between them. 3

More documentation and test examples on the blog 5. Also, look at Haddock documentation.

push-notify's Issues

push-notify fails to build: `clientCertificates' is not a (visible) constructor field name

Configuring push-notify-0.1.0.0...
Building push-notify-0.1.0.0...
Preprocessing library push-notify-0.1.0.0...
[ 1 of 12] Compiling Network.PushNotify.Mpns.Constants ( Network/PushNotify/Mpns/Constants.hs, dist/dist-sandbox-b0b8892f/build/Network/PushNotify/Mpns/Constants.o )
[ 2 of 12] Compiling Network.PushNotify.Apns.Constants ( Network/PushNotify/Apns/Constants.hs, dist/dist-sandbox-b0b8892f/build/Network/PushNotify/Apns/Constants.o )
[ 3 of 12] Compiling Network.PushNotify.Mpns.Types ( Network/PushNotify/Mpns/Types.hs, dist/dist-sandbox-b0b8892f/build/Network/PushNotify/Mpns/Types.o )
[ 4 of 12] Compiling Network.PushNotify.Mpns.Send ( Network/PushNotify/Mpns/Send.hs, dist/dist-sandbox-b0b8892f/build/Network/PushNotify/Mpns/Send.o )

Network/PushNotify/Mpns/Send.hs:58:46:
`clientCertificates' is not a (visible) constructor field name
Failed to install push-notify-0.1.0.0
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
push-notify-0.1.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

Use camel case.

The code basically uses camel case but use underscore in some places. Should just one, preferable the one the rest of the community uses.

ex. https://github.com/MarcosPividori/GSoC-Communicating-with-mobile-devices/blob/master/push-notify/Network/PushNotify/Gcm/Types.hs#L43-L49

Split into 3 repos

It would be very useful if the 3 packages were in different repositories.

That way, cloning the repository would be much smaller.

Thanks!

Upgrade to retry 0.5.1

The new version of retry has different types for configuration.

Upgrade tls and remove tls-extra

tls-extra is deprecated. Newer versions of tls have absorbed the functionality I gather and the PrivateKey type is gone.

tls 1.2 support

Hello, I noticed that push-notify has been implemented using tls 1.1 and I have a project that depends on tls 1.2 which makes my program and push-notify incompatible with each other.

I would love if this library supported tls 1.2.
I checked if it would be easy to convert existing code from tls 1.1 to 1.2 and unfortunately it seems like it will be a bit of work since a lot of data types have changed.

tls 1.1:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tls-1.1.5/docs/Network-TLS.html

tls 1.2:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tls-1.2.7/docs/Network-TLS.html

Upload latest version to Hackage

When I tried cabal install push-notify, I got the following error:

$ cabal install push-notify
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring push-notify-0.1.0.1...
Building push-notify-0.1.0.1...
Failed to install push-notify-0.1.0.1
Last 10 lines of the build log ( /Users/a_/.cabal/logs/push-notify-0.1.0.1.log ):
Building push-notify-0.1.0.1...
Preprocessing library push-notify-0.1.0.1...

Network/PushNotify/Gcm/Send.hs:15:8:
Could not find module ‘Data.Conduit.Attoparsec’
It is a member of the hidden package ‘conduit-extra-1.1.9’.
Perhaps you need to add ‘conduit-extra’ to the build-depends in your .cabal file.
Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
push-notify-0.1.0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

I see in the repository that the conduit-extra dependency is already listed in the cabal file.

APNs example 1 fails with "thread blocked indefinitely in an MVar operation"

I set the environment to Development and ran the program.

Let's send a notification:
An alert message:
hi
starting apns
sending apns
main: thread blocked indefinitely in an MVar operation

I am using ghc 7.6.3

Is this library maintained?

@MarcosPividori I'd like to use this library for a project I'm working on, however it seems it needs to be dusted off a bit (it's using the deprecated certificate package, for example, and won't build from Hackage as a result). I see some changes in August, but the last Hackage release is coming up on 4 years old now.

I'm willing to put in the work to dust it off, but basically I'm wondering which is the best course of action to take here:

• If I send PRs with changes, would you merge them and push a new release to Hackage?
• Failing the above, would you be willing to add me as a collaborator on the repo and give me upload privs on Hackage?
• Faililng the above (or if I don't hear back in a few days), I'll just maintain a fork and upload to Hackage with a new name (and of course leaving your credit in place).

Do you have any preference?