Android GCM Weird behavior v1.6.2

[DowsingUK]

Hi there I'm developing an app using Java I'm using your package and when I use these settings* everything works I even get silent push notifications in my Android devices I don't know why they're in silent mode I'm even using silent: false but I keep getting silent notifications I have tried every combination of settings and nothing else seems to work and then if I use this** or this*** I just get "error":"InternalServerError" after call ****

*gcm:
{
id: config.fcm_server_id,
phonegap: true
}

**gcm:
{
id: config.fcm_server_id,
phonegap: false
}

***gcm:
{
id: config.fcm_server_id
}

****push.send(registrationIds, data).then(function(result)
{
log(result);
//This prints this info here not in catch function so I'm guessing something's wrong in your side
"method": "gcm",
"multicastId": [
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
],
"success": 0,
"failure": 1,
"message": [
{
...
"error": "InternalServerError"
}
]

})
.catch(function(err)
{
log(err);
//never gets call
});

[alex-friedl]

@DowsingUK Hard to tell why you get silent notifications from the information you provided. Can you share a more complete example if your notification payload?

[DowsingUK]

I'm using same code as the example:

const settings =
{
gcm:
{
id: fcm_server_id,
phonegap: true, // if false fails, if true works in silent mode
},
};

push = new PushNotifications(settings);

const data =
{
title: hook.data.title, // REQUIRED for Android
// topic: 'topic', // REQUIRED for iOS (apn and gcm)
/* The topic of the notification. When using token-based authentication, specify the bundle ID of the app.
* When using certificate-based authentication, the topic is usually your app's bundle ID.
* More details can be found under https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/setting_up_a_remote_notification_server/sending_notification_requests_to_apns
/
body: body, // REQUIRED for Android
priority: 'high', // gcm, apn. Supported values are 'high' or 'normal' (gcm). Will be translated to 10 and 5 for apn. Defaults to 'high'
collapseKey: '', // gcm for android, used as collapseId in apn
contentAvailable: true, // gcm, apn. node-apn will translate true to 1 as required by apn.
delayWhileIdle: true, // gcm for android
restrictedPackageName: '', // gcm for android
dryRun: false, // gcm for android
icon: '', // gcm for android
tag: '', // gcm for android
color: '', // gcm for android
clickAction: '', // gcm for android. In ios, category will be used if not supplied
locKey: '', // gcm, apn
locArgs: '', // gcm, apn
titleLocKey: '', // gcm, apn
titleLocArgs: '', // gcm, apn
retries: 1, // gcm, apn
encoding: '', // apn
badge: badge, // gcm for ios, apn
sound: 'ping.aiff', // gcm, apn
silent: false, // gcm, apn, will override badge, sound, alert and priority if set to true on iOS, will omit notification property and send as data-only on Android/GCM
alert:
{ // apn, will take precedence over title and body
title: title,
body: body
// details: https://github.com/node-apn/node-apn/blob/master/doc/notification.markdown#convenience-setters
},
/
* A string is also accepted as a payload for alert
* Your notification won't appear on ios if alert is empty object
* If alert is an empty string the regular 'title' and 'body' will show in Notification
*/
// alert: '',
launchImage: '', // apn and gcm for ios
action: '', // apn and gcm for ios
category: '', // apn and gcm for ios
// mdm: '', // apn and gcm for ios. Use this to send Mobile Device Management commands.
// https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/MobileDeviceManagementProtocolRef/3-MDM_Protocol/MDM_Protocol.html
urlArgs: '', // apn and gcm for ios
truncateAtWordEnd: true, // apn and gcm for ios
mutableContent: 0, // apn
threadId: '', // apn
expiry: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 28 * 86400, // seconds
timeToLive: 28 * 86400, // if both expiry and timeToLive are given, expiry will take precedency
headers: [], // wns
launch: '', // wns
duration: '', // wns
consolidationKey: 'my notification', // ADM
};

[alex-friedl]

Do you need phonegap compatibility mode? Have you tried phonegap: false ?
If phonegap=true the notification property will be set to undefined, which can result in a silent notification if you also don't set a sound or icon.

[alex-friedl]

Also you posted basically the example with empty default values but it's not clear which payload you specify in the body.
I would assume your payload is incomplete. Please refer to https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm to see some example configurations for your Android use-case

[DowsingUK]

I've been using the same payload in a previous version 1.4.1 and everything works fine I'm actually using that version in production right now it's a stable one at least in my case just looking forward to update if you help me with this bug. I do not need phonegap mode actually the first thing I tried was disabling it with not positive outcome as I describe in the main post I have use phonegap: true and that's making every push notification a silent one if I remove phonegap property or set it to false I get "error": "InternalServerError"

[alex-friedl]

Would be interesting to get more details of InternalServerError response from Firebase. Any chance you can debug this on your end with some breakpoints or logs in your local node-gcm dependency? Or is there the possibility to get more details from the Firebase console?

[alex-friedl]

@DowsingUK Any update on this? Do you still experience these issues?

[DowsingUK]

Same issues with this package, push works fine if I send push from FCM console