rahul-barick / localytics

sending real-time push notifications using node.js and Built.io Flow

Localytics

The Push API is an interface for sending real-time push notifications that leverages the Localytics marketing platform using node.js

Created Source Code for Localytics Service Custom Activity or Action with flow

If you have not yet integrated the Localytics SDK into your app then you can use Localytics

Flow provides an action builder that lets you insert custom code and create an action that looks and works exactly the way other actions do.

To create a new custom action yo need to follow Some Conventions. These conventions are mainly classified into 3 main blocks of program code as given below:

1. this.input: This block includes the definition of form input fields.

2. this.output: This block includes the definition of the output parameters that your action will return.

3. this.execute: This block includes the program logic that will run inside Flow Engine.

request module:

This module helps you to make HTTP calls to third party applications. In order to do that, you need to provide values for following keys:

• Headers: Pass the required values to create a connection.

• Method: Specify the HTTP method to be used to make an API call.

• URL: Provide the URL to which you wish to make HTTP request.

• Error handler: Specify error handler function 'function (err,response,body)' for your action. If the action throws an error, it should return 'output(err)', and if the action is executed successfully, it should return 'output(body)'.