I am using node.js (server framework) and mongoose.js (mongo based schema modeling) as the backend for an iOS app and I am using Mocha (test framwork) to make sure everything works.
What I really want to know, and can find no documentation on, is how to test on the server if the push notifications are being appropriately sent. I am using apnagent and at the moment I can see that push notifications are being sent correctly by manually checking my device but I am having difficulty finding an automated way to test that they are working correctly.
That may be enough of a description to answer at a high level what needs to be done. But in case it is not here is the actual code:
Mongoose Model fires off a push notification upon creation:
#this code is called after this model is saved in mongodb
eventModel.post 'save', (doc) ->
#push the message
sendMessageToDevice = (event, token) ->
message =
event_body:
eventId: event._id
lat: event.lngLat[1]
lng: event.lngLat[0]
agent.createMessage()
.device(token)
.alert('New Event! ' + event.description)
.set(message)
.send()
#cycle through the users to push to
#get all the unique device tokens in the database for APN
users.getAllUniqueDeviceTokens (error, devices) ->
if error then return util.handleError error
console.log "Sending push notices to all devices (%d):", devices.length
console.log devices
for token in devices
sendMessageToDevice doc, token
#send some verification here that the code ran correctly???
Then in my Mocha test file I have:
it 'should receive push notification from fort creation', (done) ->
#some logic here to verify that push notifications were sent
done()
