/**
* Register this account/device pair within the server.
*
* @return whether the registration succeeded or not.
*/
public static boolean register(final Context context, final String regId) {
Log.i(TAG, "registering device (regId = " + regId + ")");
String serverUrl = "http://" + SERVER_URL + "/web/register";
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("regId", regId);
long backoff = BACKOFF_MILLI_SECONDS + random.nextInt(1000);
// Once GCM returns a registration id, we need to register it in the
// demo server. As the server might be down, we will retry it a couple
// times.
for (int i = 1; i <= MAX_ATTEMPTS; i++) {
Log.d(TAG, "Attempt #" + i + " to register");
try {
displayMessage(context, context.getString(R.string.server_registering, i, MAX_ATTEMPTS));
post(serverUrl, params);
GCMRegistrar.setRegisteredOnServer(context, true);
String message = context.getString(R.string.server_registered);
CommonUtilities.displayMessage(context, message);
return true;
} catch (IOException e) {
// Here we are simplifying and retrying on any error; in a real
// application, it should retry only on unrecoverable errors
// (like HTTP error code 503).
Log.e(TAG, "Failed to register on attempt " + i, e);
if (i == MAX_ATTEMPTS) {
break;
}
try {
Log.d(TAG, "Sleeping for " + backoff + " ms before retry");
Thread.sleep(backoff);
} catch (InterruptedException e1) {
// Activity finished before we complete - exit.
Log.d(TAG, "Thread interrupted: abort remaining retries!");
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
return false;
}
// increase backoff exponentially
backoff *= 2;
}
}
String message = context.getString(R.string.server_register_error, MAX_ATTEMPTS);
CommonUtilities.displayMessage(context, message);
return false;
}
/** Unregister this account/device pair within the server. */
static void unregister(final Context context, final String regId) {
Log.i(TAG, "unregistering device (regId = " + regId + ")");
String serverUrl = "http://" + SERVER_URL + "/web/unregister";
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("regId", regId);
try {
post(serverUrl, params);
GCMRegistrar.setRegisteredOnServer(context, false);
String message = context.getString(R.string.server_unregistered);
CommonUtilities.displayMessage(context, message);
} catch (IOException e) {
// At this point the device is unregistered from GCM, but still
// registered in the server.
// We could try to unregister again, but it is not necessary:
// if the server tries to send a message to the device, it will get
// a "NotRegistered" error message and should unregister the device.
String message = context.getString(R.string.server_unregister_error, e.getMessage());
CommonUtilities.displayMessage(context, message);
}
}