Extracting title and message from push notification payload.

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1

Please i’ve been having issue extracting title and message from a push payload.

My push payload is this

{"google.sent_time":1509962407640,"grp_msg":"","title":"Thank you","alert":"Thank you so much","vis":"1","custom":"{\"i\":\"7715aff8-4fca-4d5d-afc3-57dfdacc1574\"}","pri":"5","google.message_id":"0:1509962407645917%7f7d296df9fd7ecd"}

and my code to notifying user is below

push.on("receivedMessage", function(payload) {
	        console.log("Recieved Push Notification: " + payload);
	        console.log(payload.title);
	        console.log(payload.alert);
	        LocalNotify.now(payload.title, payload.alert, payload, true);
	    });

However the i noticed payload.title and payload.alert returns null.

Please what are mine doing wrong?

Thank you.

2

To see exactly what payload object looks like, you can do this:

push.on("receivedMessage", function(payload) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(payload));
}

That should give you a good enough idea on what you receive and how to access properties of that object.

3

Thanks Uldis. I’ve already posted the content of the payload in my previous thread and it baffles me why i cannot extract the content of the payload for example payload.title

Below is the output of the console.log(JSON.stringify(payload));

"{\"google.sent_time\":1509964250115,\"grp_msg\":\"\",\"title\":\"This messg\",\"alert\":\"This is content\",\"vis\":\"1\",\"custom\":\"{\\\"i\\\":\\\"ff1f9d2e-48ad-49f5-9d5d-7d873a7560cd\\\"}\",\"pri\":\"5\",\"google.message_id\":\"0:1509964250123641%7f7d296df9fd7ecd\"}"

I still get a null output when i try payload.title

4

No idea then. You’ll need to share a complete, minimal example that we can copy-paste-and-run to reproduce the issue.

5

Thanks.

6

Oh, I got it.

The payload you get there is a string. You need to JSON.parse(payload) to turn it into an object.

7

Thanks so much Uldis.

That was exactly the issue. It’s now working fine. Thank you so much for your help.