Buddy4all

Developers Guide

Notification messages

Notifications are sent by the backend via Websocket and/or Firebase push notifications. The following notification are sent:

Friendship endpoints

When new friendship request has been made

Channel: Websocket and Firebase

Socket message:

{
  message: "friendship status changed",
  message_type: "api_friendship_status",
  status: "new_request",.
  friend_id: [:id of the inviting user:],
  open_requests: [:# of open friendship requests:],
}

When a friendship as been accepted

Sent when a friendship request has been accepted, a message is sent to the creator of the request

Channel: Websocket only

Message:

{
  message: "Message text",
  message_type: 'friendship_request',
  friend_id: [:id of the inviting user:],
  open_requests: [:# of open friendship requests:],
  tooltip: "a message related to the open requests",
  with_sound:  true|false
}