FCM adapter

[thailey01]

How would we go about developing a push adapter for FCM. Projects created in Google Console seem to now be required to use Firebase Cloud Messaging instead of GCM. I've tried to start an FCM adapter by copying the GCM adapter where I could but I'm changing certain parts when needed based on fcm-node documentation.

[flovilmart]

We could add a new handler here for fcm, so it processes properly fcm based push alongside GCM. The FCM compatible installations will have pushType set to fcm instead of gcm. What do you think?

[thailey01]

That'd be perfect! Wish I could help in some way.

[flovilmart]

No need for the FCM adapter, just initialize with the right key and the GCM adapter pushes will automagically send everything correctly!

[thailey01]

Don't you need a serverapi key and a project number? I don't think firebase supplies the project number or key.

[thailey01]

Nevermind, Firebase creates a senderId and Server Api Key which can be found in the project settings.

[thailey01]

Do we still have to add firebase to our projects? I set the senderId and apiKey found in Firebase but the message wasn't pushed.

[flovilmart]

Does the token was acquired with the firebase SDK? Not sure about the compatibility here

[thailey01]

When setting up fcm, the Firebase console automatically creates a senderId and a serverApiKey.

[flovilmart]

I means the android device tokens. Maybe we should still let gcm and fcm token live separately.

[thailey01]

Oh, I haven't added the Firebase sdk to my app so the token must be generated by parse. Basically, I'm running parse-server as usual but have setup fcm (which created a serverkey and senderId). I'm then placing that key and id in parse-server just like I would with gcm key and id. Sorry for the confusion.

[flovilmart]

All device tokens acquired with GCM should work with FCM. But if you changed your senderID and serverKey, that's likely to be problematic IMHO yet I'm not sure

[thailey01]

The thing is I haven't setup gcm with parse-server. I was using push through hosted parse but it didn't require me to create an app for gcm. Now the only option we have is to add fcm instead of gcm and it doesn't seem to be working. I setup my parse app (and server side) just like how you would with gcm and added the fcm credentials to it, which is really only the server key but that shouldn't be any different.

[flovilmart]

@inlined may have more input on that.