How to send Extra parameters in payload via Amazon SNS Push Notification

Question

This is something new i am asking as i haven\'t got it any answers for it on SO.

I am using Amazon SNS Push for sending push to my registered devices, everything is

Answer 1

The Amazon SNS documentation is still lacking here, with few pointers on how to format a message to use a custom payload. This FAQ explains how to do it, but doesn't provide an example.

The solution is to publish the notification with the MessageStructure parameter set to json and a Message parameter that is json-encoded, with a key for each transport protocol. There always needs to be a default key too, as a fallback.

This is an example for iOS notifications with a custom payload:

array(
    'TargetArn' => $EndpointArn,
    'MessageStructure' => 'json',
    'Message' => json_encode(array(
        'default' => $title,
        'APNS' => json_encode(array(
            'aps' => array(
                'alert' => $title,
            ),
            // Custom payload parameters can go here
            'id' => '123',
            's' => 'section'
        ))

    ))
);

The same goes for other protocols as well. The format of the json_encoded message must be like this (but you can omit keys if you don't use the transport):

{ 
    "default": "", 
    "email": "", 
    "sqs": "", 
    "http": "", 
    "https": "", 
    "sms": "", 
    "APNS": "{\"aps\":{\"alert\": \"\",\"sound\":\"default\"} }", 
    "APNS_SANDBOX": "{\"aps\":{\"alert\": \"\",\"sound\":\"default\"} }", 
    "GCM": "{ \"data\": { \"message\": \"\" } }", 
    "ADM": "{ \"data\": { \"message\": \"\" } }" 
}