Parse on Buddy.com, push notifications sent via API not delivered

Question

I've almost successfully migrated an existing app from Parse.com to Buddy.com for sending and receiving push notifications.

Registering, acquiring the deviceToken, and subscribing to channels works. I can see the installation details in the data Browser and also sending push notifications directly from the Dashboard works. Notifications are received almost immediately in the app.

Now I have changed my server application (using the Parse PHP-SDK 1.2.1) to use the Buddy API endpoint and configured it to use the masterkey for authentication. Although sending a push notification via the API doesn't give an error and is even returning "result => 1", notifications are never received in the application. I can't find a server log like on the original Parse Dashboard at Buddy, so I can't verify if the messages I sent are really queued and picked up for delivery.

I'm a missing something essential?

Answer 1

Solved it! Seems that the Parse.com api accepted push data payload in JSON encoded format. But for the Buddy.com platform, data should be passed as plain array.

My payload as I pull it from our notification queue:

$data = '{"alert":"Test bericht"}';

Although returning result => true, this won't work:

ParsePush::send(array(
  "channels" => ['user_1234'],
  "data" => $data
), true);

This works as expected:

ParsePush::send(array(
  "channels" => ['user_1234'],
  "data" => json_decode($data, true)
), true);