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Signed-off-by: Joas Schilling <[email protected]>
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# Push notifications as a Nextcloud client device



## Checking the capabilities of the Nextcloud server

In order to find out if notifications support push on the server you can run a request against the capabilities endpoint: `/ocs/v2.php/cloud/capabilities`

```json
{
"ocs": {
...
"data": {
...
"capabilities": {
...
"notifications": {
"ocs-endpoints": [
...
"push"
]
}
}
}
}
}
```



## Subscribing at the Nextcloud server

1. **Only on first registration on the server** The device generates a `rsa2048` key pair (`devicePrivateKey` and `devicePublicKey`).

2. The device generates the `PushToken` for *Apple Push Notification Service* (iOS) or *Firebase Cloud Messaging* (Android)

3. The device generates a `sha512` hash of the `PushToken` (`PushTokenHash`)

4. The device then sends the `devicePublicKey` and `PushTokenHash` to the Nextcloud server:

```json
POST /ocs/v2.php/apps/notifications/api/v3/push

{
"pushTokenHash": "{{PushTokenHash}}",
"devicePublicKey": "{{devicePublicKey}}"
}
```


### Response

The server replies with the following status codes:

| Status code | Meaning |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| 200 | No further action by the device required |
| 201 | Push token was created/updated and **needs to be sent to the `Proxy`** |
| 400 | Invalid public key, device does not use a token to authenticate or the push token hash is invalid formatted |
| 401 | Device is not logged in |



#### Body in case of success

In case of `200` and `201` the reply has more information in the body:

| Key | Type | |
| ---------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
| publicKey | string (512) | rsa2048 public key of the user account on the instance |
| deviceIdentifier | string (128) | unique identifier encrypted with the users private key |
| signature | string (512) | base64 encoded signature of the deviceIdentifier |



#### Body in case of an error

In case of `400` the following `message` can appear in the body:

| Error | Description |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
| `INVALID_PUSHTOKEN_HASH` | The hash of the push token was not a valid `sha512` hash. |
| `INVALID_SESSION_TOKEN` | The authentication token of the request could not be identified. Check whether a password was used to login. |
| `INVALID_DEVICE_KEY` | The device key does not match the one registered to the provided session token. |



## Unsubcribing at the Nextcloud server

When an account is removed from a device, the device should unregister on the server. Otherwise the server sends unnecessary push notifications and might be blocked because of spam.



The device should then send the `devicePublicKey` and `PushTokenHash` to the Nextcloud server:

```json
DELETE /ocs/v2.php/apps/notifications/api/v3/push

{
"devicePublicKey": "{{devicePublicKey}}"
}
```



### Response

The server replies with the following status codes:

| Status code | Meaning |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| 202 | Push token was deleted and **needs to be deleted from the `Proxy`** |
| 400 | Invalid public key or device does not use a token to authenticate |
| 401 | Device is not logged in |



#### Body in case of an error

In case of `400` the following `message` can appear in the body:

| Error | Description |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| `INVALID_SESSION_TOKEN` | The authentication token of the request could not be identified. |
| `INVALID_DEVICE_KEY` | The device key does not match the one registered to the provided session token. |



## Subscribing at the Push Proxy

The device sends the`PushToken` as well as the `deviceIdentifier`, `signature` and the user´s `publicKey` (from the server´s response) to the Push Proxy:

```json
POST /devices

{
"pushToken": "{{PushToken}}",
"deviceIdentifier": "{{deviceIdentifier}}",
"deviceIdentifierSignature": "{{signature}}",
"userPublicKey": "{{userPublicKey}}"
}
```



### Response

The server replies with the following status codes:

| Status code | Meaning |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| 200 | Push token was written to the databse |
| 400 | Push token, public key or device identifier is malformed, the signature does not match |
| 403 | Device is not allowed to write the push token of the device identifier |
| 409 | In case of a conflict the device can retry with the additional field `cloudId` with the value `{{userid}}@{{serverurl}}` which allows the proxy to verify the public key and device identifier belongs to the given user on the instance |



## Unsubscribing at the Push Proxy

The device sends the `deviceIdentifier` and the user´s `publicKey` (from the server´s response) to the Push Proxy:

```json
DELETE /devices

{
"deviceIdentifier": "{{deviceIdentifier}}",
"userPublicKey": "{{userPublicKey}}"
}
```



### Response

The server replies with the following status codes:

| Status code | Meaning |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| 200 | Push token was deleted from the databse |
| 400 | Public key or device identifier is malformed |
| 403 | Device identifier and device public key didn't match or could not be found |



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