Direct Send

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07/28/2016

Sends a notification directly to a device handle (a valid token as expressed by the Notification type). Users of this API do not need to use Registrations or Installations. Instead, users of this API manage all devices on their own and use Azure Notification Hub solely as a pass through service to communicate with the various Push Notification Services.

Request

Method	Request URI	HTTP Version
POST	https://{namespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{NotificationHub}/messages/?direct&api-version=2015-04	HTTP/1.1

Request Headers

The following table describes required and optional request headers.

Request Header	Description
Authorization	Token generated as specified in Shared Access Signature Authentication with Service Bus, or Service Bus authentication and authorization with Microsoft Azure Active Directory Access Control (also known as Access Control Service or ACS).
Content-Type	Set the Content-Type header based on the target platform notification service below: WNS : Set to application/json;charset=utf-8 or application/xml. If the notification type (X-WNS-Type) is “wns/raw”, set to application/octet-stream. GCM and APNS : Set to application/json;charset=utf-8. MPNS : Set to application/xml;charset=utf-8.
ServiceBusNotification-DeviceHandle	The PNS device handle.
ServiceBusNotification-Tags	{single tag identifier} (optional)
ServiceBusNotification-Format	Set to a valid PlatformType value windows apple gcm windowsphone adm nokiax baidu
x-ms-version	2015-04 (Supported by 2015-01 and later)

Request Body

Based on the platform type, the request body formats will change. Refer to the body formats for each individual platform in native Send REST APIs.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers. Response body is returned on success.

Response Codes

Code	Description
201	Message successfully sent.
400	The request is malformed (for example, not valid routing headers, not valid content-type, message exceeds size, bad message format).
401	Authorization failure. The access key was incorrect.
403	Quota exceeded or message too large; message was rejected.
404	No message branch at the URI.
413	Requested entity too large. The message size cannot be over 64Kb.

For information about status codes, see Status and Error Codes.

Response Headers

Response Header	Description
Content-Type	application/xml; charset=utf-8
Location	This header is only available for Standard tier Notification Hubs. This header will contain the Notification Message ID. This is used with Per Message Telemetry: Get Notification Message Telemetry and correlating PNS Feedback. The location header uses the following format: `https://{your namespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{your hub name}/messages/{notification message id}?api-version=2015-04`

Response Header

Description

Content-Type

application/xml; charset=utf-8

Location

This header is only available for Standard tier Notification Hubs.

This header will contain the Notification Message ID. This is used with Per Message Telemetry: Get Notification Message Telemetry and correlating PNS Feedback. The location header uses the following format:

https://{your namespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{your hub name}/messages/{notification message id}?api-version=2015-04

Response Body

None.