Available as of Camel 2.8

The apns component is used for sending notifications to iOS devices. The apns components use javapns library. The component supports sending notifications to Apple Push Notification Servers (APNS) and consuming feedback from the servers.

The consumer is configured with 3600 seconds for polling by default because it is a best practice to consume feedback stream from Apple Push Notification Servers only from time to time. For example: every 1 hour to avoid flooding the servers.

The feedback stream gives informations about inactive devices. You only need to get this informations every some hours if your mobile application is not a heavily used one.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-apns</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

To send notifications:

apns:notify[?options]

To consume feedback:

apns:consumer[?options]

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&...

When Camel will fetch feedback data corresponding to inactive devices, it will retrieve a List of InactiveDevice objects. Each InactiveDevice object of the retrieved list will be setted as the In body, and then processed by the consumer endpoint.

Camel Apns uses these headers.

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:camel="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">

	<!-- Replace by desired values -->
	<bean id="apnsServiceFactory" class="org.apache.camel.component.apns.factory.ApnsServiceFactory">

		<!-- Optional configuration of feedback host and port -->
		<!-- <property name="feedbackHost" value="localhost" /> -->
		<!-- <property name="feedbackPort" value="7843" /> -->

		<!-- Optional configuration of gateway host and port -->
		<!-- <property name="gatewayHost" value="localhost" /> -->
		<!-- <property name="gatewayPort" value="7654" /> -->

		<!-- Declaration of certificate used -->
		<property name="certificatePath" value="src/test/resources/certificate.p12" />
		<!-- In case you wants to load certificate from classpath: -->
		<!-- <property name="certificatePath" value="classpath:/certificate.p12" /> -->
		<property name="certificatePassword" value="MyCertPassword" />

		<!-- Optional connection strategy - By Default: No need to configure -->
		<!-- Possible options: NON_BLOCKING, QUEUE, POOL or Nothing -->
		<!-- <property name="connectionStrategy" value="POOL" /> -->
		<!-- Optional pool size -->
		<!-- <property name="poolSize" value="15" /> -->

		<!-- Optional connection strategy - By Default: No need to configure -->
		<!-- Possible options: EVERY_HALF_HOUR, EVERY_NOTIFICATION or Nothing (Corresponds to NEVER javapns option) -->
		<!-- <property name="reconnectionPolicy" value="EVERY_HALF_HOUR" /> -->
	</bean>

	<bean id="apnsService" factory-bean="apnsServiceFactory" factory-method="getApnsService" />

	<!-- Replace this declaration by wanted configuration -->
	<bean id="apns" class="org.apache.camel.component.apns.ApnsComponent">
		<property name="apnsService" ref="apnsService" />
	</bean>

	<camelContext id="camel-apns-test" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
        	<route id="apns-test">
                	<from uri="apns:consumer?initialDelay=10&elay=3600&imeUnit=SECONDS" />
        	        <to uri="log:org.apache.camel.component.apns?showAll=true&ultiline=true" />
                	<to uri="mock:result" />
        	</route>
	</camelContext>

</beans>

    protected CamelContext createCamelContext() throws Exception {
        CamelContext camelContext = super.createCamelContext();

        ApnsServiceFactory apnsServiceFactory = new ApnsServiceFactory();
        apnsServiceFactory.setCertificatePath("classpath:/certificate.p12");
        apnsServiceFactory.setCertificatePassword("MyCertPassword");

        ApnsService apnsService = apnsServiceFactory.getApnsService(camelContext);

        ApnsComponent apnsComponent = new ApnsComponent(apnsService);
        camelContext.addComponent("apns", apnsComponent);

        return camelContext;
    }

    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() throws Exception {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            public void configure() throws Exception {
                from("direct:test")
                    .setHeader(ApnsConstants.HEADER_TOKENS, constant(IOS_DEVICE_TOKEN))
                    .to("apns:notify");
                }
        }
    }

    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() throws Exception {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            public void configure() throws Exception {
                from("direct:test").
                to("apns:notify?tokens=" + IOS_DEVICE_TOKEN);
            }
        };
    }

from("apns:consumer?initialDelay=10&delay=3600&timeUnit=SECONDS")
    .to("log:com.apache.camel.component.apns?showAll=true&multiline=true")
    .to("mock:result");