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Re: Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 2)

Rikar — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:10:50 GMT

Hi Andrea,

Thank for your answer. Actually, X-WNS-DEVICECONNECTIONSTATUS and X-WNS-NOTIFICATIONSTATUS return "connected" and "received", respectively.

Anyway, I found my problem: when I sent the xml representation of the notification, I encoded it in a base64, as you show in your example. I tried not to encode it and, automagically, it worked. So, I suppose that java encode automatically the body of a request and so I do not need to encode it explicitly.

I wrote these few lines hoping that they could help others that experience the same problem.

Bye,

Rikar

Re: Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 2)

AndreaBoschin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:49:50 GMT

Hi Rikar,

It is hard to give you an answer. It seems you implemented the things correctly. I suggest you to double check the format of the notification and the content of returned http headers X-WNS-DEVICECONNECTIONSTATUS and X-WNS-NOTIFICATIONSTATUS to ensure the message has been delivered.

Bye.

Andrea

Re: Windows 8 Metro: Implementing push notifications (part 2)

Rikar — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:57:36 GMT

Hi Andrea, thank you for your tutorials, they are very useful.

I have a problem with push notifications: I'm using a JAVA web service to send the notifications to the windows 8 app. I must use JAVA for the WS.

Anyway, I can authenticate the WS and, when I send the toast and the badge notifications, I get a HTTP code of 200, so I don't think that the problem is in the server-side.

In the client side, I can register to get an URI and I have attached an handler for the PushNotificationReceived event.

I have associated the app with the name I have reserved in the Windows Store Developer Center and I ask to the user to allow the notifications (in fact, when i go to settings > notifications I can see that my app is enabled). I have alse modified the manifest in order to enable the toast and the tileAndBadge notification.

The problem arises when the web server sends a notification (actually i have tried only badge and toast) to the client. The server says 200, but the client does not receive anything. I have tried to lock the screen, to send the notification with the app closed on the start screen, I have tried with the app in background in debug mode. Nothing.

I think I am missing something but I can't see what.... what do you think?

Thank you,

Rikar.