Node.js process to queue from Firebase to Urban Airship.

push_to_urbarairship.js

// UNTESTED; THEORETICAL, based on http://docs.urbanairship.com/connect/ios_push.html

https://github.com/mikeal/request
var request = require('request');

/** Presumably the snapshot will contain something like this:
 * 
 {
   "audience": {"device_token": "FE66489F304DC75B8D6E8200DFF8A456E8DAEACEC428B427E9518741C92C6660"},
   "notification": {
      "ios": {
         "alert" : {
            "body" : "Bob wants to play poker",
            "action-loc-key" : "PLAY"
         },
      },
   "device_types": ["ios"]
  }
  *
  */
queuePushNotificationPath.on('child_added', function(snap) {

  request.request({
         uri: 'https://go.urbanairship.com/api/push/',
         headers: {
            'Accept': 'application/vnd.urbanairship+json; version=3;'
         },
         json: true,
         auth: {
            user: '<application key>',
            pass: '<application master secret>'
         },
         body: JSON.stringify(snap.val());
      }, function (error, response, body) {
        if(response.statusCode == 201){
          console.log('pushed successfully')
          
          // remove the queue entry on success
          snap.ref().remove();
          
        } else {
          console.log('error: '+ response.statusCode)
          
          /* retry?? */
          
        }
    }

});