google Cloud Messaging Push notification

Question

Can I use POSTMAN client on Google Chrome to send payload message to GCM server for testing purpose. Secondly if yes, what is the header and url parameter to be sent.

Answer 1

Just for the record and to complete the nice answer from @Alexandru Rosianu the GCM endpoint changed a while ago and it is suggested to use the new one. Here is an example taken from the official docs:

Authentication

To send a message, the application server issues a POST request. For example:

https://gcm-http.googleapis.com/gcm/send

A message request is made of 2 parts: HTTP header and HTTP body.

The HTTP header must contain the following headers:

• Authorization: key=YOUR_API_KEY
• Content-Type: application/json for JSON; application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8 for plain text. If Content-Type is omitted, the format is assumed to be plain text.

For example:

Content-Type:application/json
Authorization:key=YOUR_API_KEY

{
  "notification": {
      "title": "Portugal vs. Denmark",
      "text": "5 to 1"
  },
  "to" : "bk3RNwTe3H0:CI2k_H..."
}

The HTTP body content depends on whether you're using JSON or plain text. See the Server Reference for a list of all the parameters your JSON or plain text message can contain.

Example using Curl:

# curl --header "Authorization: key=YOUR_API_KEY" \
       --header Content-Type:"application/json" \
       https://gcm-http.googleapis.com/gcm/send \
       -d "{\"notification\": { \"title\": \"Portugal vs. Denmark\"," \
          "\"text\": \"5 to 1\" }, \"to\" : \"bk3RNwTe3H0:CI2k_H...\" }"