Sending iOS Specific push parameters error

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Hi Bill,

This is Sean with Urban Airship Technical Support.

Platform specific options, such as badge or sound options for iOS, need to be in a platform override object within the notification object. You can find more information in our API Reference Documentation.

Below is an edit of your payload as an example of a valid payload with badging data.

{
  "audience": {
    "ios_channel": "channel id"
  },
  "notification": {
      "ios": {
         "alert": "Hello!"
         "badge": "+1"
      }
  },
  "device_types": [
    "ios"
  ]
}

Thank you,
Sean Conlin
Urban Airship Technical Support
Portland, Oregon

Thanks. Actually I was following ruby server side guide and it didn't put iOS specific parameter in a platform override object, so it confused me.

The docs showed (in attachment):

push.notification = UA.ios(
    alert: 'hello world',
    badge: 123,
    sound: 'sound file',
    extra: { 'key' => 'value', 'key2' => 'value2' }
    expiry: '2012-01-01 12:45',
    category: 'category_name',
    interactive: UA.interactive(
        type: 'ua_share',
        button_actions: {
            share: { share: 'Sharing is caring!' }
        }
    ),
    content_available: true
)

Which should be:

push.notification = UA.notification(
    ios: UA.ios(
        alert: 'hello world',
        badge: 123,
        sound: 'sound file'
    )
)

Although it has correct example at the end of documentation, it'd be better to make it consistency in case of confusion in the future.

Documentation address: http://docs.urbanairship.com/reference/libraries/ruby/3.2.2/push.html#notification-payload

Hi Bill,

The UA.ios class will set the iOS object for you.
To clarify, I don't believe the server-side libraries were designed to have their syntax be a 1 to 1 map of the push payload, and the ruby server library has a different class for each platform.

Sean

I didn't look into how the library was written. All I know is if I use UA.ios directly it won't work for me.

Also the sample code for sending single iOS notification put UA.ios inside UA.notification as well: http://docs.urbanairship.com/reference/libraries/ruby/3.2.2/examples.html#single-ios-push

Ah, I see what you're saying.

I'll get that documentation cleaned up. Thanks for pointing that out.