Using Html5 Notification in Blackberry Webworks

Question

I am using HTML5 Local Notifications in Blackberry 10 (Higher Version BB z10) using webworks 1.0

And it works fine for Me.

The code used look like this.

    var n = new Notification("MyMessage", {
            'body' : content.message,
            'tag': content.chatid,
            'target' : "MyMessage",
            'targetAction' : "bb.action.OPEN"

            });

The link of this api reference is here

Blackberry Webworks Notification

Now there is one more field as ""

payload: Payload to send to the invoked app. Data must be Base64 encoded. Value is passed on to the Invocation Framework as data.

This to open a specific html page based on the notification you click.

I am not able to use it correctly. Also blackberry support forms do not give reply or any sample for this.

Question I asked in Blackberry Support Forums

Luca S. Luca S. · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-09T22:01:55

I think there is a simpler way of achieving what you are trying to do. First of all allow me to point you to the notification sample: https://github.com/blackberry/BB10-WebWorks-Samples/blob/master/notify/.

To answer your specific query you need to bear in mind 2 things in the following order:

(1). The app needs to be invokable so you need to modify the config.xml and the index.html respectively:

config.xml

<rim:invoke-target id="com.myApp.entrypoint">
    <type>APPLICATION</type>
    <filter>
        <action>bb.action.OPEN</action>
        <mime-type>text/plain</mime-type>
    </filter>
</rim:invoke-target>

where "id" is your unique ID (ie. nobody else should be using that)

index.html or index.js

document.addEventListener("invoked", onInvoked, false);

add the above after the system has fired the "deviceready" event. The "onInvoked" function will look like:

function onInvoked(data) {
   var pageToOpen = data.URI;
   //do something with pageToOpen now
}

(2). Your notification will need to have the attribute "payLoadURI" set to the html page that you want to open. I'm thinking It will be something like

local:///myPage.html

This "myPage.html" it's what your "pageToOpen" variable will receive and at that stage you can push the right HTML fragment to the top.

I hope it helps.

P.S. this has been tested with WebWorks 2.0 so I would advise you to upgrade for a better experience.

Using Html5 Notification in Blackberry Webworks

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