Push Notifications to tags in BlueMix

Question

I am trying to use the messages service in the Bluemix Services Push REST API to send a push notification to users who are subscribed to previously created tags. The problem is that when I send a notification to multiple tags, if a user is registered to more than one of those tags he is receiving the same notification multiple times.

The API says this:

tagNames (Array[string], optional): Send notification to the devices that have subscribed to any of these tags

So I understand that the user should only receive one notification, instead of what is happening.

My call looks like this:

{
    "message": { 
        "alert": "Text notification",
    }, 
    "target": { 
        "tagNames": ["TAG1","TAG2","TAG3","TAG4","TAG5","TAG6","TAG7"] 
    },
    "settings": {
        "apns": {
            "badge": 1,
            "sound": "UILocalNotificationDefaultSoundName"
        }
    }
}

James Young IBM James Young IBM · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-06T14:19:48

Confirmed with the Bluemix Push development team that this is indeed a defect in the service and you should only be receiving one notification in this instance. The team has created a defect for the issue and once it has been resolved and pushed to production I'll update this answer with whatever additional information or changes in usage come from the fix.

Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention

Push Notifications to tags in BlueMix

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