nextcloud
trigger "notification:test-push" via mobile apps (to self test push notifications)
It should be possible to trigger
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/yourinstance/occ notification:test-push --talk youruser
via API, so the mobile apps could have a "Test Notifications" button in the settings-view.
That notification should be catched on mobile clients and they show a success dialog. If notification is not received within x seconds, show a dialog with the link to the troubleshooting checklist etc.
With this every user could check that pushproxy is working or not and it can be narrowed down why a notifications is not shown.. If possible, also give feedback to the mobile clients that the "notification:test-push" command was successfully executed on server...
Current issue is that all notification handling is user based and using a real notification. It would be good enough if that is still the case, but the push only happens to this one device, right?
Current issue is that all notification handling is user based and using a real notification. It would be good enough if that is still the case, but the push only happens to this one device, right?
sure. all we need would be a new type for the notification, like "selfcheck"? and if possible maybe add a timestamp to the message when the "notification:test-push" was executed? so we could show in the dialog how long it took to reach the phone..?
As far as I can tell this feature is currently not possible to implement, because the OCP IManager does not expose a way to send a notification to a single token and not to the all the devices a user has, right? IMO it would also be fine to just send a self-test notification to all devices. Devices that are not doing the self-test at the moment the notification is received can just ignore it. The downside of that would be that older clients wouldn't know how to handle such a notification and possibly crash or display strange popup notifications.
Since we are the app that handles pushing, we can add an endpoint to do exactly that ourselves.