Location based push notifications with MobileFirst

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We are trying to send push notifications to user based on user's location, for eg when user reaches near a location he/she will get a notification from the application, we are currently using Mobilefirst 8.0.

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How do you make the server aware of the client's location? Will you be calling an adapter ? Trying to see if you are looking for local notifications or server dispatched notifications - Vivin K
We are looking for server dispatched push notifications by Mobilefirst server - Shruti
Yes, we are using Java adapters - Shruti

1 Answers

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I would adopt a solution like this:

  1. When the location plugin has detected that the user is in a specific location or zone, it fires.
  2. Within the action ( success callback), call a MFP adapter with all the relevant information.
  3. This adapter can either call the MFP Push service REST endpoints directly. The invocation looks this.

OR

  1. The adapter calls a backend, that will invoke the Push service REST endpoints. This will give more flexibility in terms of pushing customized payload , that can change according to business cases ( eg: festivals,discounts).

The complete list of Push service REST endpoints are here.