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, a JSON dictionary is returned (which may be empty). 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 default rules (and only server default rules) begin with a dot ('.') character. In addition, all rules may be enabled or disabled. Disabled rules never match. If no rules match an event, the Home Server should not notify for the message (that is to say, the default action is "dont-notify"). Events that the user sent themself are never alerted for. Predefined Rules ---------------- Matrix specifies the following rule IDs for server default rules. Home Servers may define rules as follows with the given IDs. If Home Servers provide rules with these IDs, their semantics should match those given below: .m.rule.contains_user_name Matches any message whose content is unencrypted and contains the local part of the user's Matrix ID, separated by word boundaries. Definition (as a content rule):: { "rule_id": ".m.rule.contains_user_name" "pattern": "[the lcoal part of the user's Matrix ID]", "actions": [ "notify", { "set_tweak": "sound", "value": "default" } ], } .m.rule.contains_display_name Matches any message whose content is unencrypted and contains the user's current display name in the room in which it was sent. Definition (this rule can only be an override or underride rule):: { "rule_id": ".m.rule.contains_display_name" "conditions": [ { "kind": "contains_display_name" } ], "actions": [ "notify", { "set_tweak": "sound", "value": "default" } ], } .m.rule.room_one_to_one Matches any message sent in a room with exactly two members. Definition (this rule can only be an override or underride rule):: { "rule_id": ".m.rule.room_two_members" "conditions": [ { "is": "2", "kind": "room_member_count" } ], "actions": [ "notify", { "set_tweak": "sound", "value": "default" } ], } .m.rule.suppress_notices Matches messages with 'msgtype' of 'notice'. This should be an override rule such that, when enabled, it takes priority over content / sender / room rules. Definition:: { 'rule_id': '.m.rule.suppress_notices', 'conditions': [ { 'kind': 'event_match', 'key': 'content.msgtype', 'pattern': 'm.notice', } ], 'actions': [ 'dont-notify', ] } .m.rule.fallback Matches any message. Used to define the behaviour of messages that match no other rules. Therefore, if Home Servers define this, it should be the lowest priority underride rule. Definition:: { "rule_id": ".m.rule.fallback" "conditions": [], "actions": [ "notify" ], } 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. highlight Whether or not this message should be highlighted in the UI. This will normally take the form of presenting the message in a different colour and/or weight. The UI might also be adjusted to draw particular attention to the room in which the event occurred. The value may be omitted from the highlight tweak, in which case it should be read as if it had a value of true. 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. If a kind of tweak that a client understands is not specified in an action, the client may choose a sensible behaviour for the tweak. 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/// The component parts are as follows: scope Either 'global' or 'device/' 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", "enabled": true } 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", "enabled", true } ], "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. Enabling and Disabling Rules ---------------------------- Rules can be enabled or disabled with a PUT operation to the 'enabled' component beneath the rule's URI with a content of 'true' or 'false':: curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d 'false' "http://localhost:8008/_matrix/client/api/v1/pushrules/global/sender/%40spambot%3Amatrix.org/enabled?access_token=123456"