Aws-sdk-ruby: Publishing SNS message to topic not working

[goleador]

Here is the request and response:

[AWS SNS 400 0.799616 0 retries] publish(:message=>"{\"APNS_SANDBOX\":\"{\"aps\":{\"alert\":\"678978698\",\"sound\":\"default\"}}\"}",:message_structure=>"json",:subject=>"789579",:target_arn=>"arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:208143138780:new-workouts-topic")

AWS::SNS::Errors::InvalidParameter Invalid parameter: Message Structure - No default entry in JSON message body

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 5446ms

AWS::SNS::Errors::InvalidParameter (Invalid parameter: Message Structure - No default entry in JSON message body):

[lsegal]

You have to pass a "default" key if you use a JSON payload. See the docs and the example I gave you in the last issue you opened.

[goleador]

Ok. That made it not crash but the device doesn't get the message when the target is a topic that it is subscribed to. It does get a message when I send a message directly to the device's end point.

Am I missing something fundamental here? I thought if I send a message a topic all devices (endpoints) subscribed to that topic would receive it.

[lsegal]

@goleador are you suggesting that the solution given in #336 is not working for you anymore? You had mentioned in that issue that it was. Is this issue different from the original one?

[awood45]

If you're having issues with Amazon SNS topics not working as expected, I'd recommend you post on the Amazon SNS Discussion Forum or contact AWS Support.

[batianusrey]

@goleador, I see that you are sending a message to a topic but you are passing it's ARN it to the target_arn: hash key instead of the topic_arn: hash key. Haven't tried it but that my be the reason.

[goleador]

@lsegal That was directly to a specific device not a topic.

@batianusrey That was the issue thank you.

[nenetto]

I leave the doc info here for future visits:

be a syntactically valid JSON object; and
contain at least a top-level JSON key of "default" with a value that is a string.
You can define other top-level keys that define the message you want to send to a specific transport protocol (e.g., "http").