register global event listener
- Devices API
The register global event listener
method of the devices API notifies a
registered listener upon global device events. It uses HTTP long polling in
send the event to this listener in real time, so upon receiving an event, the
connection has to be reestablished by the client to receive further events.
GET /api/devices/events
Parameter | Desciption | Example |
---|---|---|
device_token |
The token of the device which performed the request. (Optional) Lets the server know the registered device is still active. | device_token=7dafeec0-c351-11e9-84c5-3d1ede2e7d2e |
{
"type": "<String>",
"data": "<Any>"
}
- type defines what type of event has been triggered.
- data contains the event specific payload.
See global events
Request:
GET /api/devices/events
Response:
{
"type": "device_added",
"data": {
"token": "1d9f5d30-830f-11ea-8dcb-0021ccd76152",
"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.113 Safari/537.36",
"last_active": 1587391153295,
"name": "Chrome 81.0.4044"
}
}