How can I send a Firebase Cloud Messaging notification without use the Firebase Console?

Question

I\'m starting with the new Google service for the notifications, Firebase Cloud Messaging.

Thanks to this code https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-a

Answer 1

Notification or data message can be sent to firebase base cloud messaging server using FCM HTTP v1 API endpoint. https://fcm.googleapis.com/v1/projects/zoftino-stores/messages:send.

You need to generate and download private key of service account using Firebase console and generate access key using google api client library. Use any http library to post message to above end point, below code shows posting message using OkHTTP. You can find complete server side and client side code at firebase cloud messaging and sending messages to multiple clients using fcm topic example

If a specific client message needs to sent, you need to get firebase registration key of the client, see sending client or device specific messages to FCM server example

String SCOPE = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase.messaging";
String FCM_ENDPOINT
     = "https://fcm.googleapis.com/v1/projects/zoftino-stores/messages:send";

GoogleCredential googleCredential = GoogleCredential
    .fromStream(new FileInputStream("firebase-private-key.json"))
    .createScoped(Arrays.asList(SCOPE));
googleCredential.refreshToken();
String token = googleCredential.getAccessToken();



final MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");

OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient();

Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url(FCM_ENDPOINT)
    .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; UTF-8")
    .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + token)
    .post(RequestBody.create(mediaType, jsonMessage))
    .build();


Response response = httpClient.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.isSuccessful()) {
    log.info("Message sent to FCM server");
}