Parse server failing to send push notifications?

Question

I have a Parse-Server (hosted by heroku) that I have configured to send push notifications. It appears set up correctly on the dashboard, but when I got to actually send one it just says the push is "Saved" but when I go to check its status, it has failed to send. Here is the index.js for the set up:

var api = new ParseServer({
  databaseURI: databaseUri || 'mongodb://localhost:27017/dev',
  cloud: process.env.CLOUD_CODE_MAIN || __dirname + '/cloud/main.js',
  appId: process.env.APP_ID || 'myAppId',
  masterKey: process.env.MASTER_KEY || '', //Add your master key here. Keep it $
  serverURL: process.env.SERVER_URL || 'http://localhost:1337/parse',  // Don't$
  liveQuery: {
    classNames: ["Posts", "Comments"] // List of classes to support for query s$
  },
  push: JSON.parse(process.env.SERVER_PUSH || "{}"),
});

The PARSE_SERVER_PUSH (as well as the appId, masterKey and serverURL) is configured on my config vars on the heroku site as follows:

{ "ios": 
   { "pfx": "/Users/path/to/folder/Prod\Cert.p12 ", 
    "passphrase": "******", 
    "bundleId": "com.parse.app",
    "production": true
    }
}

I am not sure why the dashboard appears to have the server set up to correctly send the push notifications, but they all fail?

Edit: I also tried to send the push via an API request as follows:

curl -X POST \
    -H "X-Parse-Application-Id: myAppsID" \
    -H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ***************" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{ 
        "where": { 
            "deviceType": { "$in": [ "ios",  "android"  ]  }  
        },
        "data": {
            "title": "Ant-man",
            "alert": "This is awesome. It is awesome."
        }
    }' \
    https://appName.herokuapp.com/parse/push

This returned {"result":true} on my terminal, and yet it still showed that the push failed on the dashboard.
Edit2: I have also noticed that despite selecting a specific audience that I created for the pushes, the parse-server always reports that I attempted to send it to the default "Everyone". Not sure if that provides any additional hints or not.

Answer 1

client push is not supported in parse-server you can read more about it in here:

http://docs.parseplatform.org/parse-server/guide/#push-notifications

the reason that it is not supported its because you must provide your masterKey and this is can be done only in cloud code. So in order to push notify your users you must create a cloud code function that will perform the push and there you need to use your masterKey

Since cloud code is NodeJS you can read parse-server JavaScript docs in order to know how to do it. Specifically you need to read this part: http://docs.parseplatform.org/js/guide/#push-notifications

but I strongly recommend to read more in order to understand how it works.

Here is some code snippets from one of my parse-server projects:

Parse.Push.send({
    data: oPayload,
    where: oWhereQuery
}, {
        useMasterKey: true
    }).then(function () {
        console.log("Push notification sent to: " + aRecievers);
    }, function (err) {
        console.log("Failed to send push notification with error: " + err);
    });

As you can see from the above code, I sent payload which is the payload that needs to be sent (according to parse-server docs because this payload must fit to APNS/GCM). The where is parse-server feature which allows you to filter to which devices you like to send the push notification. Also notice that I set userMasterKey: true which means that I send this push as parse-server admin

After you create the cloud code function and register your devices with parse-server you can execute a CURL request to trigger the cloud code function to test it. (endpoint is: https://:/functions/

Hope it helps.