Amazon SNS push notification special characters

Question

I've been struggling with one particular thing in Amazon SNS push notifications which I can't find in any Amazon docs.

I'm trying to send a notification that contains & character and it happens that everything after & is stripped out.

Try our new M&M's candy becomes Try our new M. I haven't found any solution so far, so maybe someone here has faced the same issue?

Thanks in advance!

How are you sending the message? If it is via code, please provide a sample of the code so that we can reproduce your situation. Have you tried sending such a message from the console, and did it work? — John Rotenstein
Either replace & by %26 or &. (Not knowing Amazon SNS) — Joop Eggen

syumaK syumaK · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-21T19:20:30

I have just tested your message (i.e "Try our new M&M's candy") using the below payload and confirmed that special characters are working when included in the Push Notification payload:

Payload :

{
  "GCM": "{ \"notification\": { \"text\": \"Try our new M&M's candy\" } }"
}

Response :

@Mikhail, can you kindly re-test and check if you are still experiencing this issue?

Amazon SNS push notification special characters

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