Channel settings overview

This section covers APIs related to creation of channel setting.

What are channel settings?

A channel may want to send notification for multiple categories. Ex: Coindesk may want to send notifications for tech, marketing, defi and so on. Similarly, Aave may want to send notifciation for certain loan liquidation value.

Having settings for your channel enables your users to express interest on what settings they want to receive notifications for and when they want to receive it.

Once you have enabled channel settings, you can access settings prefrence of each user via Fetch Subscription API. You can also trigger notifications which target particular settings category via Send Notification API.

note

If a user hasn't opted in for a particular setting and you trigger notification for that setting category then the notification will be filtered out by Push Node.

Channel setting API

js

// creates channel settings
const createChannelSettingRes = userAlice.channel.setting([
  { 

    type: 1, // Boolean type
    default: 1,
    description: "Receive marketing notifications",
  },
  {
    type: 2, // Slider type
    default: 10,
    description: "Notify when loan health breaches",
    data: { upper: 100, lower: 5, ticker: 1 },
  },
]);

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Create channel setting parameters

Param	Type	Subtype	Default	Description
type	number	-	-	The type of notification setting. 1 for boolean type and 2 for slider type
default	number	-	-	The default value for the setting.
description	string	-	-	A description of the setting.
data.upper	number	-	-	Valid for slider type only. The upper limit for the setting.
data.lower	number	-	-	Valid for slider type only. The lower limit for the setting.
data.ticker	number	-	1	Valid for slider type only. The ticker by which the slider moves.

Note: Parameters in this style are mandatory.

Expected response

{
  transactionHash: "0xf5056d382f209b5a7bcbf08d69c80dd13079467ba38413da8ca065a45f901a32";
}

Types of channel settings

Push currently supports defining the following settings for your channel —

• Boolean Setting - This setting allows users to set their preference as true / false. For example: receive marketing notifications
• Slider Setting - This setting allows users to set their preference between a slider. For example: alert when ENS domain expires (Between 1 - 7 days)

Type	ID	Description
Boolean	1	Set a setting to be yes or no, must have a default
Slider	2	Set a setting to be slider, must have upper and lower range and a default