You can access views via the admin API now, see:

https://github.com/couchbase/sync_gateway/issues/379

The non-admin API is coming soon:

https://github.com/couchbase/sync_gateway/issues/449

Which version of Sync Gateway are you running?


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:57 PM, James Nocentini <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm trying to set up Apple Push Notifications when some user actions are
> triggered on the app. Here's what I have managed to do so far:
> - User logs in and accepts to receive push notifications
> - New Profile document is saved with device_token as one property
> - Then when a push notification is needed, create a Notification document
> and save it.
>
> Using follow <https://github.com/iriscouch/follow> to get notified of
> changes and check if the type of the document is "notification". From there
> I need the list of device tokens but I'm struggling to get them.
> Tried using cradle <https://github.com/flatiron/cradle> but I can't get
> save/query views to work. It seems like the sync gateway REST interface
> doesn't support views?
>
> follow(configuration, function(error, change) {
>   if (!error) {
>     console.log('got change number ' + change.seq + ': ' + change.id);
>
>     if (change.doc.type == "notification") {
>
>       // missing: query a view on the sync gateway
>       // to retrieve all the device tokens
>       // to send the notification to
>
>     }
>   }
> });
>
> Looking at the push notification robot
> <https://github.com/couchbaselabs/CouchChat-iOS/blob/push/push-notifications/index.js>
>  to
> fetch those device tokens via a channel but I couldn't find the
> sync-wrangler node module.
> What's the best way to retrieve device tokens in this case?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Monday, 9 June 2014 16:48:20 UTC+1, Jens Alfke wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 8:26 AM, CouchbaseLover <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Ok let's say we expand the way "CouchChat" works and implement Apple's
>> Notifications but without the use of talking to the APNS server. Instead we
>> check the gateway’s _changes feed and use that instead to make a
>> "UILocalNotfication" instead of a "Push Notification" that needs to talk to
>> the APNS server.
>>
>>
>> Oh, I see. This will only work while your app is active/visible. The main
>> advantage of push notifications is that they can be delivered even when
>> your app isn’t running. Push notifications also don’t require keeping an
>> open socket to the server, so they’re a lot better for battery life.
>> (They’re triggered from a sideband message over regular GSM, kind of like
>> an invisible SMS message, so they don’t require keeping the faster and more
>> power-hungry 3G/LTE/4G/WiFi radios active.)
>>
>> —Jens
>>
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