Setting up an NDS

Receiving push notifications involves using an Notification Delivery Service (NDS) as an intermediary to receive the webhook event from one of the SDK services. These can be currently one of several services that provide information about events that the Breez SDK registers for. For example, payment events from the LSP or swap transaction confirmation events from the chain service. The NDS then processes this information and dispatches a push notification to the intended mobile device, ensuring the user receives timely updates about incoming events. This architecture necessitates developers set up and maintain their own NDS, tailored to handle and forward these notifications efficiently. An example payload when a payment_received POST request to the webhook URL contains the following JSON formatted structure:

{
    "template": "payment_received",
    "data": {  
        "payment_hash": [payment hash]
    }
}

The need to run your own NDS is because it's configured to send push notifications to your application users and therefore should be configured with the required keys and certificates. You can use our reference NDS implementation as a starting point or as is. Our implementation of the NDS expects URLs in the following format:

https://your-nds-service.com/notify?platform=<ios|android>&token=[PUSH_TOKEN]

This is the same format used when registering a webhook in the Breez SDK, replacing the PUSH_TOKEN with the mobile push token. Once the NDS has received such request it will send a push notification to the corresponding device.

Mobile push token

Ensure that your mobile application is set up to receive push notifications and can generate a push token. This token uniquely identifies the device for push notifications.