Send additional push notification data to iOS devices using Azure

Question

I'm trying to send some data through azure mobile service to iOS devices based on what I learned from this tutorial https://github.com/ggailey777/mobile-services-samples/tree/master/CordovaNotificationsArticle ,

However, when I set the payload on azure like this

var payload = '{ "message" : "' + message + '", "title" : "Title...", "id" : "' + recordid + '"  }';

only Android devices can receive additional data on Cordova push plugin notification event, but on iOS, anything other than data.message is undefined.

push.on('notification', function (data) {
    var recordID = data.additionalData.id
});

And here is my code for registration:

    var push = PushNotification.init({
        "android": { "senderID": AzureMobileServiceClient.senderID },
        "ios": { "alert": true, "badge": true, "sound": true }
    });

    push.on('registration', function (data) {

            //// Call mobile service client here 
            var mobileServiceClient = new WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient(AzureMobileServiceClient.API_URL, AzureMobileServiceClient.API_KEY);

            // Get the native platform of the device. 
            var platform = "";
            if (ionic.Platform.isIOS()) {
                platform = "iOS";
            }
            else {
                platform = "android";
            }

            var tags = [userid, platform];
            // Get the handle returned during registration. 
            var handle = data.registrationId;
            // Set the device-specific message template. 
            if (platform == "android" || platform == "Android") {
                // Template registration. 
                var template = '{ "data" : {"message":"$(message)", "id": "$(id)", "title": "$(title)"}}';
                // Register for notifications. 
                mobileServiceClient.push.gcm.registerTemplate(handle,
                    "myTemplate", template, null, tags)
                    .done(registrationSuccess, registrationFailure);
            } else if (platform == "iOS") {

                // Template registration. 
                var template = '{"aps": {"alert": "$(message)"}}';

                // Register for notifications.             
                mobileServiceClient.push.apns.registerTemplate(handle,
                    "myTemplate", template, null, tags)
                    .done(registrationSuccess, registrationFailure);
            }

        });

Does anyone know how to get additional data on iOS? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Can you show the template you are using in registration? For Apple, custom data is outside the aps node, so a template like {"aps":{"alert":"@{message}", "id":${id}} or so. — phillipv

Lily_user4045 Lily_user4045 · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-12T02:35:21

The template for the iOS client app registration is as follows:

{"aps": {"alert": "$(message)"}}

Send additional push notification data to iOS devices using Azure

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