Send an APNS Native Notification

Sends an APNS native notification through a notification hub.

Request

Method	Request URI	HTTP Version
POST	https://{namespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{NotificationHub}/messages/?api-version=2015-01	HTTP/1.1

The following table describes required and optional request headers.

Request Header	Description
Authorization	Token generated as specified in Shared Access Signature Authentication with Service Bus, or Service Bus authentication and authorization with Microsoft Azure Active Directory Access Control (also known as Access Control Service or ACS).
Content-Type	Set to application/json;charset=utf-8.
ServiceBusNotification-Tags	{single tag identifier} (optional)
ServiceBusNotification-Format	Set to apple.
ServiceBusNotification-Apns-Expiry	Apns expiry in W3C DTF, YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD (for example, 1997-07-16T19:20+01:00).

The request body is an XML document as specified by Apple. For example:

{ 
    "aps" : { 
        "alert" : " This is my toast message for iOS!", 
    }, 
}

The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.

Code	Description
200	Message successfully sent.
400	The request is malformed (for example, not valid routing headers, not valid content-type, message exceeds size, bad message format).
401	Authorization failure. The access key was incorrect.
403	Quota exceeded or message too large; message was rejected.
404	No message branch at the URI.
413	Requested entity too large. The message size cannot be over 64Kb.

For information about status codes, see Status and Error Codes.

Response Header	Description
Location	This header is only available for Standard tier Notification Hubs. This header will contain the Notification Message ID. This is used with Per Message Telemetry: Get Notification Message Telemetry and correlating PNS Feedback. The location header uses the following format: `https://{your namespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{your hub name}/messages/{notification message id}?api-version=2015-04`

Response Header

Description

Location

This header is only available for Standard tier Notification Hubs.

This header will contain the Notification Message ID. This is used with Per Message Telemetry: Get Notification Message Telemetry and correlating PNS Feedback. The location header uses the following format:

https://{your namespace}.servicebus.windows.net/{your hub name}/messages/{notification message id}?api-version=2015-04

None.