WP Notify for Flutter

Introduction

Welcome to the documentation for WP Notify for Flutter!
Here you'll be able to learn how it works and explore the features available.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us

Requirements

To quickly get set up, you'll need to ensure that you have the below requirements.

• WordPress 4.0+
• WooCommerce Store 3.5+
• Flutter
• Firebase account

Installing the Plugin

Follow the below steps to install the plugin on your WordPress site:

• Login into your WooSignal account (or create an account if you are new).

• Once you reach the Dashboard, on the left nav bar look for "Plugins" and click the link.

• After downloading the plugin, visit your WordPress site and login to get to your admin dashboard. On your nav bar, look for "Plugins" like the below image.

  

  Select "Add New" and proceed to the next step below.

• Then select "Upload plugin" like the below image

  

  This will open a box below where you can upload a .zip file.

• Click "Choose file" can look for the WooSignal plugin you downloaded and select the .zip file to install. After you select "Install Now". You should then be able to activate the plugin from your WordPress admin to start using it.

• If you followed all the steps above you should now be ready to start using the plugin in Flutter.

Next

Install the Flutter package

Add the following line to your pubspec.yaml file

dependencies:
  wp_notify: ^2.0.0

2. Install it

You can install packages from the command line:

$ flutter pub get

Error handling

If the request payload "status" returns a value higher than 200 then an error has happened.
When an error occurs with an API request, the expected object response will return as null.

Initializing WP Notify in Flutter

In your main.dart file create a new instance of WPNotifyAPI like the following example below

import 'package:woosignal/wp_notify.dart';
...

void main() {

WPNotifyAPI.instance.initWith(baseUrl: "https://mysite.com");

...

Storing token

Use this method to store a users FCM token into WordPress. Returns a 200 if successful

Method

WPStoreTokenResponse wpStoreTokenResponse;
try {
    wpStoreTokenResponse = WPNotifyAPI.instance.api((request) => request.wpNotifyStoreToken(token: token, userId: usersId));
} on Exception catch (e) {
    print(e);
}

Returns WPStoreTokenResponse | null

Updating a tokens status

Use this method to update a (FCM) tokens status e.g. setting false means the token will be inactive (turn off notifications).

Use this method to update a tokens status e.g. setting false means the token will be inactive (turn off notifications).

Method

WPUpdateTokenResponse wpUpdateTokenResponse;
try {
    wpUpdateTokenResponse = WPNotifyAPI.instance.api((request) => request.wpNotifyUpdateToken(token: token, status: true));
} on Exception catch (e) {
    print(e);
}

Returns WPUpdateTokenResponse | null

Sending push notifications

Using our WordPress WP Notify package, you'll be able to easily send push notifications to users.

First, download WP Notify for WordPress here.

Once you've downloaded and installed WP Notify on your WordPress site, you can access the dashboard and see all the users that have their devices registered for notifications.

It's important that you first add your FCM Server Key from Firebase before sending notifications.