How to use notificationconf?

Question

Hello!

I have read THIS tutorial about creating Push nodes and posting/subscribing to notifications. The only problem I have met is that it seems that notificationconf unable to create that node...

My first question: are nodename (parameter of notificationconf tool) and notificationName (NSString which I use from app) the same things?

Second:

notificationconf createnode push.example.com BFMyTestPushhNotification beefon
Enter password: // password from Open Directory for user beefon - it is Admin of the 10.6 server
2010-01-24 13:24:58.916 notificationconf[15221:903] created XMPP session
2010-01-24 13:24:58.931 notificationconf[15221:903] Connecting to push.example.com:5222 with user [email protected]/TestPubsub, security = 2 ...
2010-01-24 13:24:59.130 notificationconf[15221:903] sessionCallback (event 1)
2010-01-24 13:24:59.130 notificationconf[15221:903] Session stopped (event 1)

What I do wrong? And posting notification from app does nothing...

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Notifications are easy to use on the same node, but harder across a network. Especially, I don't think too many people are actually using it, as Google search results are scarce :) Now, regarding your questions:

For 1: yes, you need to have matching nodename and notificationName. The man page says so (although not crystal-clear):

 createnode hostname nodename username
         Creates a node on the server to send notifications using.  Before
         a client can subscribe to notifications with a given name, the
         server must be configured with a node with a matching name.

So, first you have to create the node, then you can listen to notifications of a given name. Otherwise, you don't get the notifications.

For 2: I get this error when there is no XMMP daemon running (i.e. port 5222 is closed). Is that port open for you? (check the output of nmap -p 5222 push.example.com).