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Push Notifications
==================
Pushers
-------
To receive any notification pokes at all, it is necessary to configure a
'pusher' on the Home Server that you wish to receive notifications from. There
is a single API endpoint for this::
POST $PREFIX/pushers/set
This takes a JSON object with the following keys:
pushkey
This is a unique identifier for this pusher. The value you should use for this
is the routing or destination address information for the notification, for
example, the APNS token for APNS or the Registration ID for GCM. If your
notification client has no such concept, use any unique identifier.
kind
The kind of pusher to configure. 'http' makes a pusher that sends HTTP pokes.
null deletes the pusher.
profile_tag
This is a string that determines what set of device rules will be matched when
evaluating push rules for this pusher. It is an arbitrary string. Multiple
devices maybe use the same profile_tag. It is advised that when an app's
data is copied or restored to a different device, this value remain the same.
Client apps should offer ways to change the profile_tag, optionally copying
rules from the old profile tag.
app_id
appId is a reverse-DNS style identifier for the application. It is recommended
that this end with the platform, such that different platform versions get
different app identifiers. Max length, 64 chars.
app_display_name
A string that will allow the user to identify what application owns this
pusher.
device_display_name
A string that will allow the user to identify what device owns this pusher.
lang
The preferred language for receiving notifications (eg, 'en' or 'en-US')
data
A dictionary of information for the pusher implementation itself. For HTTP
pushers, this must contain a 'url' key which is a string of the URL that
should be used to send notifications.
If the pusher was created successfully, an empty JSON dictionary is returned.
Push Rules
----------
Home Servers have an interface to configure what events trigger notifications.
This behaviour is configured through 'Push Rules'. Push Rules come in a variety
of different kinds and each kind of rule has an associated priority. The
different kinds of rule, in descending order of priority, are:
Override Rules
The highest priority rules are user-configured overrides.
Content Rules
These configure behaviour for (unencrypted) messages that match certain
patterns. Content rules take one parameter, 'pattern', that gives the pattern
to match against. This is treated in the same way as pattern for event_match
conditions, below.
Room Rules
These change the behaviour of all messages to a given room. The rule_id of a
room rule is always the ID of the room that it affects.
Sender
These rules configure notification behaviour for messages from a specific,
named Matrix user ID. The rule_id of Sender rules is always the Matrix user
ID of the user whose messages theyt apply to.
Underride
These are identical to override rules, but have a lower priority than content,
room and sender rules.
In addition, each kind of rule may be either global or device-specific. Device
specific rules only affect delivery of notifications via pushers with a matching
profile_tag. All device-specific rules are higher priority than all global
rules. Thusly, the full list of rule kinds, in descending priority order, is as
follows:
* Device-specific Override
* Device-specific Content
* Device-specific Room
* Device-specific Sender
* Device-specific Underride
* Global Override
* Global Content
* Global Room
* Global Sender
* Global Underride
For some kinds of rule, rules of the same kind also have an ordering with
respect to one another. The kinds that do not are room and sender rules where
the rules are mutually exclusive by definition and therefore an ordering would
be redundant. Actions for the highest priority rule and only that rule apply
(for example, a set_tweak action in a lower priority rule will not apply if a
higher priority rule matches, even if that rule does not specify any tweaks).
Rules also have an identifier, rule_id, which is a string. The rule_id is
unique within the kind of rule and scope: rule_ids need not be unique between
rules of the same kind on different devices.
A home server may also have server default rules of each kind and in each scope.
Server default rules are lower priority than user-defined rules in each scope.
Server defined rules do not have a rule_id except when it is necessary to derive
the function of the rule (ie. in room and sender rules). Server default rules
have an attribute, "default" set to true.
Push Rules: Actions:
--------------------
All rules have an associated list of 'actions'. An action affects if and how a
notification is delievered for a matching event. This standard defines the
following actions, although if Home servers wish to support more, they are free
to do so:
notify
This causes each matching event to generate a notification.
dont_notify
Prevents this event from generating a notification
coalesce
This enables notifications for matching events but activates Home Server
specific behaviour to intelligently coalesce multiple events into a single
notification. Not all Home Servers may support this. Those that do not should
treat it as the 'notify' action.
set_tweak
Sets an entry in the 'tweaks' dictionary key that is sent in the notification
poke. This takes the form of a dictionary with a 'set_tweak' key whose value
is the name of the tweak to set. It must also have a 'value' key which is
the value to which it should be set.
Actions that have no parameters are represented as a string. Otherwise, they are
represented as a dictionary with a key equal to their name and other keys as
their parameters, eg. { "set_tweak": "sound", "value": "default" }
Push Rule Actions: Tweaks
-------------------------
The 'set_tweak' key action is used to add an entry to the 'tweaks' dictionary
that is sent in the notification poke. The following tweaks are defined:
sound
A sound to be played when this notification arrives. 'default' means to
play a default sound.
Tweaks are passed transparently through the Home Server so client applications
and push gateways may agree on additional tweaks, for example, how to flash the
notification light on a mobile device.
Push Rules: Conditions:
-----------------------
Override, Underride and Default rules have a list of 'conditions'. All
conditions must hold true for an event in order for a rule to be applied to an
event. A rule with no conditions always matches. Matrix specifies the following
conditions, although if Home Servers wish to support others, they are free to
do so:
event_match
This is a glob pattern match on a field of the event. Parameters:
* 'key': The dot-separated field of the event to match, eg. content.body
* 'pattern': The glob-style pattern to match against. Patterns with no
special glob characters should be treated as having asterisks
prepended and appended when testing the condition.
profile_tag
Matches the profile_tag of the device that the notification would be
delivered to. Parameters:
* 'profile_tag': The profile_tag to match with.
contains_display_name
This matches unencrypted messages where content.body contains the owner's
display name in that room. This is a separate rule because display names may
change and as such it would be hard to maintain a rule that matched the user's
display name. This condition has no parameters.
room_member_count
This matches the current number of members in the room.
* 'is': A decimal integer optionally prefixed by one of, '==', '<', '>',
'>=' or '<='. A prefix of '<' matches rooms where the member count is
strictly less than the given number and so forth. If no prefix is present,
this matches rooms where the member count is exactly equal to the given
number (ie. the same as '==').
Room, Sender, User and Content rules do not have conditions in the same way,
but instead have predefined conditions, the behaviour of which can be configured
using parameters named as described above. In the cases of room and sender
rules, the rule_id of the rule determines its behaviour.
Push Rules: API
---------------
Rules live under a hierarchy in the REST API that resembles::
$PREFIX/pushrules/<scope>/<kind>/<rule_id>
The component parts are as follows:
scope
Either 'global' or 'device/<profile_tag>' to specify global rules or
device rules for the given profile_tag.
kind
The kind of rule, ie. 'override', 'underride', 'sender', 'room', 'content'.
rule_id
The identifier for the rule.
To add or change a rule, a client performs a PUT request to the appropriate URL.
When adding rules of a type that has an ordering, the client can add parameters
that define the priority of the rule:
before
Use 'before' with a rule_id as its value to make the new rule the next-more
important rule with respect to the given rule.
after
This makes the new rule the next-less important rule relative to the given
rule.
All requests to the push rules API also require an access_token as a query
paraemter.
The content of the PUT request is a JSON object with a list of actions under the
'actions' key and either conditions (under the 'conditions' key) or the
appropriate parameters for the rule (under the appropriate key name).
Examples:
To create a rule that suppresses notifications for the room with ID '!dj234r78wl45Gh4D:matrix.org'::
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "actions" : ["dont_notify"] }' "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/room/%21dj234r78wl45Gh4D%3Amatrix.org?access_token=123456"
To suppress notifications for the user '@spambot:matrix.org'::
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "actions" : ["dont_notify"] }' "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/sender/%40spambot%3Amatrix.org?access_token=123456"
To always notify for messages that contain the work 'cake' and set a specific sound (with a rule_id of 'SSByZWFsbHkgbGlrZSBjYWtl')::
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "pattern": "cake", "actions" : ["notify", {"set_sound":"cakealarm.wav"}] }' "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/content/SSByZWFsbHkgbGlrZSBjYWtl?access_token=123456"
To add a rule suppressing notifications for messages starting with 'cake' but ending with 'lie', superseeding the previous rule::
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "pattern": "cake*lie", "actions" : ["notify"] }' "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/content/U3BvbmdlIGNha2UgaXMgYmVzdA?access_token=123456&before=SSByZWFsbHkgbGlrZSBjYWtl"
To add a custom sound for notifications messages containing the word 'beer' in any rooms with 10 members or fewer (with greater importance than the room, sender and content rules)::
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "conditions": [{"kind": "event_match", "key": "content.body", "pattern": "beer" }, {"kind": "room_member_count", "is": "<=10"}], "actions" : ["notify", {"set_sound":"beeroclock.wav"}] }' "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/override/U2VlIHlvdSBpbiBUaGUgRHVrZQ?access_token=123456
To delete rules, a client would just make a DELETE request to the same URL::
curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/room/%23spam%3Amatrix.org?access_token=123456"
Retrieving the current ruleset can be done either by fetching individual rules
using the scheme as specified above. This returns the rule in the same format as
would be given in the PUT API with the addition of a rule_id::
curl "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/room/%23spam%3Amatrix.org?access_token=123456"
Returns::
{
"actions": [
"dont_notify"
],
"rule_id": "#spam:matrix.org"
}
Clients can also fetch broader sets of rules by removing path components.
Requesting the root level returns a structure as follows::
{
"device": {
"exampledevice": {
"content": [],
"override": [],
"room": [
{
"actions": [
"dont_notify"
],
"rule_id": "#spam:matrix.org"
}
],
"sender": [],
"underride": []
}
},
"global": {
"content": [],
"override": [],
"room": [],
"sender": [],
"underride": []
}
}
Adding patch components to the request drills down into this structure to filter
to only the requested set of rules.

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Push Notifications
==================
Matrix supports push notifications as a first class citizen. Home Servers send
notifications of user events to user-configured HTTP endpoints. User may also
configure a number of rules that determine what events generate notifications.
These are all stored and managed by the users home server such that settings can
be reused between client apps as appropriate.
Nomenclature
------------
Pusher
A 'pusher' is an activity in the Home Server that manages the sending
of HTTP notifications for a single device of a single user.
Push Rules
A push rule is a single rule, configured by a matrix user, that gives
instructions to the Home Server about whether an event should be notified
about and how given a set of conditions. Matrix clients allow the user to
configure these. They create and view them via the Client to Server REST API.
Push Gateway
A push gateway is a server that receives HTTP event notifications from Home
Servers and passes them on to a different protocol such as APNS for iOS
devices or GCM for Android devices. Matrix.org provides a reference push
gateway, 'sygnal'. A client app tells a Home Server what push gateway
to send notifications to when it sets up a pusher.
For information on the client-server API for setting pushers and push rules, see
the Client Server API section. For more information on the format of HTTP
notifications, see the HTTP Notification Protocol section.

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Push Notifications: HTTP Notification Protocol
==============================================
This describes the format used by "http" pushers to send notifications of
events.
Notifications are sent as HTTP POST requests to the URL configured when the
pusher is created, but Matrix strongly recommends that the path should be::
/_matrix/push/v1/notify
The body of the POST request is a JSON dictionary. The format
is as follows::
{
"notification": {
"id": "$3957tyerfgewrf384",
"room_id": "!slw48wfj34rtnrf:example.com",
"type": "m.room.message",
"sender": "@exampleuser:matrix.org",
"sender_display_name": "Major Tom",
"room_name": "Mission Control",
"room_alias": "#exampleroom:matrix.org",
"prio": "high",
"content": {
"msgtype": "m.text",
"body": "I'm floating in a most peculiar way."
}
},
"counts": {
"unread" : 2,
"missed_calls": 1
}
"devices": [
{
"app_id": "org.matrix.matrixConsole.ios",
"pushkey": "V2h5IG9uIGVhcnRoIGRpZCB5b3UgZGVjb2RlIHRoaXM/",
"pushkey_ts": 12345678,
"data" : {
},
"tweaks": {
"sound": "bing.wav"
}
}
]
}
}
The contents of this dictionary are defined as follows:
id
An identifier for this notification that may be used to detect duplicate
notification requests. This is not necessarily the ID of the event that
triggered the notification.
room_id
The ID of the room in which this event occurred.
type
The type of the event as in the event's 'type' field.
sender
The sender of the event as in the corresponding event field.
sender_display_name
The current display name of the sender in the room in which the event
occurred.
room_name
The name of the room in which the event occurred.
room_alias
An alias to display for the room in which the event occurred.
prio
The priority of the notification. Acceptable values are 'high' or 'low. If
omitted, 'high' is assumed. This may be used by push gateways to deliver less
time-sensitive notifications in a way that will preserve battery power on
mobile devices.
content
The 'content' field from the event, if present. If the event had no content
field, this field is omitted.
counts
This is a dictionary of the current number of unacknowledged communications
for the recipient user. Counts whose value is zero are omitted.
unread
The number of unread messages a user has accross all of the rooms they are a
member of.
missed_calls
The number of unacknowledged missed calls a user has accross all rooms of
which they are a member.
device
This is an array of devices that the notification should be sent to.
app_id
The app_id given when the pusher was created.
pushkey
The pushkey given when the pusher was created.
pushkey_ts
The unix timestamp (in seconds) when the pushkey was last updated.
data
A dictionary of additional pusher-specific data. For 'http' pushers, this is
the data dictionary passed in at pusher creation minus the 'url' key.
tweaks
A dictionary of customisations made to the way this notification is to be
presented. These are added by push rules.
sound
Sets the sound file that should be played. 'default' means that a default
sound should be played.
The recipient of an HTTP notification should respond with an HTTP 2xx response
when the notification has been processed. If the endpoint returns an HTTP error
code, the Home Server should retry for a reasonable amount of time with a
reasonable backoff scheme.
The endpoint should return a JSON dictionary as follows::
{
"rejected": [ "V2h5IG9uIGVhcnRoIGRpZCB5b3UgZGVjb2RlIHRoaXM/" ]
}
Whose keys are:
rejected
A list of all pushkeys given in the notification request that are not valid.
These could have been rejected by an upstream gateway because they have
expired or have never been valid. Home Servers must cease sending notification
requests for these pushkeys and remove the associated pushers. It may not
necessarily be the notification in the request that failed: it could be that
a previous notification to the same pushkey failed.
Push: Recommendations for APNS
------------------------------
For sending APNS notifications, the exact format is flexible and up to the
client app and its push gateway to agree on (since APNS requires that the sender
have a private key owned by the app developer, each app must have its own push
gateway). However, Matrix strongly recommends:
* That the APNS token be base64 encoded and used as the pushkey.
* That a different app_id be used for apps on the production and sandbox
APS environments.
* That APNS push gateways do not attempt to wait for errors from the APNS
gateway before returning and instead to store failures and return
'rejected' responses next time that pushkey is used.
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