Using Parse to update data and push notifications

phill · January 2014

Hello again everyone (and @ar2rsawseen), I'm creating a turn-based game and have been looking around a while for a way to do this in Gideros. I looked a bunch at Parse to see if it is viable and I want to get a few things straight. First, I would like to be able to create rooms for games that each turn a player will manipulate data in. After the turn, the player would upload the new state and push a turn notification to the next player. Is this what the general flow should look like?

Second, I'm going to try to use the REST API from Parse to interact with the server and send push notifications. I've looked a ton at the gideros restful APIs on github, but I'm not at all experienced in things like this. I get the basic idea but I don't really know all the ideas. Can someone kickstart me by showing an example so I can sort out the rest?

Third, this should be fairly easy, but to what extent can I use the Notification plugin to interact with the Parse push? I know (from reading some stuff on this forum) that by simply adding the Parse SDK to the Android project that I can receive the pushes, but can I get data from them or is that not possible without a plugin?

Thanks a ton!
-phill

phill · January 2014

Ok so I played around some with the REST APIs and got a POST call to work to get data to Parse. When I tried to GET it gave me a .json error, so I don't really know what to do about Parse returning invalid json

phill · January 2014

Finally got it to work, took a while to get used to Parse's return pattern coupled with the rest.lua adding its own stuff.

parse:create("test", {a = "b", c = "d" }, function(r)

parse:get("test/"..r.data.objectId, function(t)
for i,v in pairs(t.data) do
print(i,v)
end
end)

end)

amaximov · January 2014

Hey @phill I have some experience using Parse. First of all, it is currently NOT possible to use Parse and Gideros with Android because Parse doesn't use the GCM service and there is no plugin for Parse's custom service made for Gideros.

However, Parse works great for Gideros iOS apps. Also judging by your third message, are you using a Parse lua library?

phill · January 2014

I'm using the Gideros RESTful API, just adding a new parse module. About that not supporting Android thing: I looked online and apparently you can use REST to invoke a Parse CloudCode function that sends a GCM push request. So unless you have a better alternative, I think I'm good thank god

Or I could simply add the Parse SDK to the project to receive them, I don't necessarily need to it interact with the app.

amaximov · January 2014

@phill ah yes I do remember seeing that using CloudCode to interact with GCM in the support forum. I'm not familiar with how Parse CloudCode works but that might definitely be a good alternative assuming they provide a way of querying and iterating through Installation objects from which to receive deviceTokens and send those to GCM?

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