Send an APNS Native Notification
Updated: July 27, 2016
Sends an APNS native notification through a notification hub.
Method | Request URI | HTTP Version |
|---|---|---|
POST | https://{namespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{NotificationHub}/messages/?api-version=2015-01 | HTTP/1.1 |
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 to application/json;charset=utf-8. |
ServiceBusNotification-Tags | {single tag identifier} (optional) |
ServiceBusNotification-Format | Set to apple. |
ServiceBusNotification-Apns-Expiry | Apns expiry in W3C DTF, YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD (for example, 1997-07-16T19:20+01:00). |
The request body is an XML document as specified by Apple. For example:
{
"aps" : {
"alert" : " This is my toast message for iOS!",
},
}
The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.
Code | Description |
|---|---|
200 | 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 Header | Description |
|---|---|
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
|
None.