register global event listener - Devices API

The register global event listener method of the devices API notifies a registered listener upon global device events. It uses HTTP long polling in send the event to this listener in real time, so upon receiving an event, the connection has to be reestablished by the client to receive further events.

HTTP Request

GET /api/devices/events

Query Parameters

Parameter	Desciption	Example
device_token	The token of the device which performed the request. (Optional) Lets the server know the registered device is still active.	device_token=7dafeec0-c351-11e9-84c5-3d1ede2e7d2e

Response Payload

{
    "type": "<String>",
    "data": "<Any>"
}

• type defines what type of event has been triggered.
• data contains the event specific payload.

Event Types

See global events

Example

Request:

GET /api/devices/events

Response:

{
    "type": "device_added",
    "data": {
        "token": "1d9f5d30-830f-11ea-8dcb-0021ccd76152",
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.113 Safari/537.36",
        "last_active": 1587391153295,
        "name": "Chrome 81.0.4044"
    }
}