Reactive Push Notifications Example

Kafka

1. Install Docker Toolbox.

2. Setup Docker

   docker-machine create -d "virtualbox" kafka
   docker-machine ip kafka
   eval $(docker-machine env kafka)
   

3. Start Kafka

   docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up -d
   

4. Test Kafka/create a new topic (requires Kafka binaries)

   ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 192.168.99.100:2181 --list
   ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 192.168.99.100:2181 --create --topic notifications --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1
   

API

Register a single device

Token must be a 64 chars hex string

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"token":"a77..."}' http://localhost:8080/devices

Bulk load devices

Generate dummy tokens:

hexdump -n 1000000 -v -e '/1 "%02X"' -e '/100 "\n"' /dev/urandom > tokens.dmp

Upload tokens:

curl -F "data=@tokens.dmp" http://localhost:8080/devices

Request a notify-all-devices task

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/jobs