mobi-apns 0.2.9

Installation

pip install mobi-apns

Requirements

• Python 3.5+

• hyper

• pyjwt

• cryptography

Usage

Create a client:

from mobi.apns import APNsClient, APNsMessage

client = APNsClient(
    team_id=TEAM_ID,
    bundle_id=BUNDLE_ID,
    auth_key_id=APNS_KEY_ID,
    auth_key_filepath=APNS_KEY_FILEPATH,
    use_sandbox=True
)

Alternatively, you can create a client with the contents of the auth key file directly:

client = APNsClient(
    team_id=TEAM_ID,
    bundle_id=BUNDLE_ID,
    auth_key_id=APNS_KEY_ID,
    auth_key=APNS_KEY,
    use_sandbox=True
)

If you run into any problems deserializing the key, try wrapping it to 64 lines:

client = APNsClient(
    team_id=TEAM_ID,
    bundle_id=BUNDLE_ID,
    auth_key_id=APNS_KEY_ID,
    auth_key=APNS_KEY,
    use_sandbox=True,
    wrap_key=True
)

Construct a message:

message = APNsMessage('TEST',
           badge=1,
           sound='default',
           loc_key='This is a %@',
           loc_args=['Test'])

Now you can send a message to a device by specifying its registration ID:

client.send_message(
    registration_id,
    message
)

Or you can send bulk messages to a list of devices:

client.send_bulk_message(
    [registration_id_1, registration_id_2],
    message
)

Payload

Additional APNs payload values can be passed into the message construction

message = APNsMessage(
    "All your base are belong to us.",
    badge=None,
    sound=None,
    category=None,
    content_available=False,
    action_loc_key=None,
    loc_key=None,
    loc_args=[],
    extra={},
    identifier=None,
    expiration=None,
    priority=10,
    topic=None
)

Pruning

The legacy binary interface APNs provided an endpoint to check whether a registration ID had become inactive. Now the service returns a BadDeviceToken error when you attempt to deliver an alert to an inactive registration ID. If you need to prune inactive IDs from a database you can handle the BadDeviceToken exception to do so:

::

from mobi.apns.exceptions import BadDeviceToken

try:

client.send_message(OLD_REGISTRATION_ID, “Message to an invalid registration ID.”)

except BadDeviceToken:

# Handle invalid ID here pass

Same approach if sending by bulk:

::

from mobi.apns.exceptions import PartialBulkMessage

try:

client.send_bulk_message([registration_id1, registration_id2], “Message”)

except PartialBulkMessage as e:

# Handle list of invalid IDs using e.bad_registration_ids pass

Documentation

• More information on APNs and an explanation of the above can be found in this blog post <http://gobiko.com/blog/token-based-authentication-http2-example-apns/>_.

• Apple documentation for APNs can be found here <https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/APNSOverview.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008194-CH8-SW1>_.

Credits

• Gene Sluder