Custom Push Notifications: allowed user api push urls

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@skoota

Am I correct that users cannot create their own API keys?

No that is 100% incorrect.

api keys and user api keys are two completely different things, see (which may need a bit of updating):

User API keys specification

Discourse contains a system for generating API keys per user if a very specific protocol is followed. This feature facilitates “application” access to Discourse instances without needing to involve moderators. High level description At a high level: Client (desktop app, browser plugin, mobile app) generates a private/public key pair and return url Client redirects to a route on discourse giving discourse its public key Discourse gets approval from user to use app Discourse genera…

@skoota

What is the sequence of events for creating the user API key and approving the app?

see: DiscourseMobile/js/site_manager.js at main · discourse/DiscourseMobile · GitHub read to end of file.

@skoota

Is the allowed user api push urls setting the only place I need to specify the URL to which notifications should be pushed, or is that somehow worked into the user API key?

No, it needs to be hardcoded here as well: DiscourseMobile/js/site_manager.js at main · discourse/DiscourseMobile · GitHub