Pushover notification integration using "message" rather than "text"

[Maxzhao1999]

Pushover is a popular notification server with very good cross-platform apps and is very popular. The webhooks almost works but the json message needs to be "message" rather than "text" for all the web hook text templates to work. It would be really useful to be able to receive notifications via Pushover!

[jhuckaby]

I just ran into this same issue the other day, but I looked at the pushover documentation and it seems like you have to send a application/x-www-form-urlencoded style POST? Example from their docs:

POST /1/messages.json HTTP/1.1
Host: api.pushover.net
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 180

token=azGDORePK8gMaC0QOYAMyEEuzJnyUi&user=uQiRzpo4DXghDmr9QzzfQu27cmVRsG&device=droid4&title=Backup+finished+-+SQL1&message=Backup+of+database+%22example%22+finished+in+16+minutes.

Cronicle v1 sends web hooks using a JSON formatted body, so I thought deeper code changes would be needed.

Can you confirm that Pushover indeed supports a JSON formatted POST request body, and we "only" need to change the property name where the text is stored? (from text to message)

[Maxzhao1999]

Thanks for the quick reply! from the documentation:
...only the standard percent-encoding that most HTTP libraries default to, and JSON with a Content-Type of application/json.
So I do believe it's "just" a property name change

Actually, just tested this and it worked perfectly as an example:

POST /1/messages.json HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Host: api.pushover.net
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 141

{
  "token": "***********",
  "user": "***********",
  "title": "test",
  "message": "escape message"
}

[jhuckaby]

Ah, thank you, that is awesome news. I wonder if I can just ADD the message property into the JSON body. I'm already including both text and content properties (each with the same value), to handle Slack, Discord, Teams, and others.

I'll try adding message and see if I can make a Pushover work.

[jhuckaby]

Easiest code change ever!

Releasing new build now...

[jhuckaby]

I have just released Cronicle v0.9.83 with this change in place. Click here for upgrading instructions.

You probably already know this, but by default Cronicle sends out web hooks for jobs starting, as well as completing. If you only want a hook sent for job completions, simply delete the job_start property inside the web_hook_text_templates config param.

Thanks!

[Maxzhao1999]

Thank you so much! I've never been mentioned in a software release before 🎊