Push Test

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Once you're all setup with push notifications, you can use the CLI to test how the these notifications will look for your devices.

In preparation of this make sure that:

Your app has push notifications configured for at least one provider in your app settings
You have a user that has at least one device associated
- To skip sending to devices but only to see the payload, pass skip_devices=true

The base command for testing push notifications is:

This will do several things for you:

Pick a random message from a channel that this user is part of
Use the notification templates configured for your push providers to render the payload using this message
Send this payload to all of the user's devices

This particular use case is ideal for testing a newly configured app, to make sure the push notifications are exactly as wanted.

In some other cases, your app is already configured with push notifications and is running smoothly, but you want to try out a new notification template. For example, let's say you want to test a new APN notification template:

As you can see, this one time only, the new template will be used for the push notification instead of the configured one:

Here's a full list of parameters that you can use with the test command:

Push Test Parameters

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name	type	description	default	optional
user_id	string	The user ID	-
message_id	string	ID of the message that should be used instead of a random one. If the message doesn't exist, an error will occur	-	✓
apn_notification_template	string	Notification template to be used instead of the configured APN one. This is one time only. (v1 only)	-	✓
firebase_notification_template	string	Notification template to be used instead of the configured APN one. This is one time only. (v1 only)	-	✓
firebase_data_template	string	Data template to be used instead of the configured Firebase one. This is one time only. (v1 only)	-	✓
skip_devices	boolean	Skip requiring device tokens and sending.	False	✓

Push Test Payload

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