This is the Photon Realtime Webhooks sample using Azure Websites and Blob Storage and Table Storage for persitence.
- Photon Account for Realtime
- Windows with IIS (Internet Information Service) feature enabled
- Visual Studio 2017
- PostMan
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Hit this link to create all infrastructure required to run locally and in Azure.
Note - this will host the WebAPI in Azure as well as the infrastructure.
Created Infrastructure
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Storage Accounts contain different ways to persist data in tables, queues or binary large objects (Blob). This project uses blob and table storage to store game event data
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Azure is able to host websites and web api's in the cloud. This code will be automatically deployed to a web api app read for a Http request to be sent
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Notification Hub Namespace and Notification Hub -
Notification Hub in Azure is like a queue, we can send a message and our client will consume that message, and respond accordingly
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Application Insights allows us to track numerous aspects of out project, such as execution time, errors, calls and many more, this can then be linked with BI services to get deep insight into performance and such from our code
Send a POST request e.g. localhost:6061/api/hello-world/GameCreate. In the format localhost:{port}/api/{appId}/Game{Controller}
A postman collection is included in this project, import it into Postman and Validate your endpoint by issuing REST calls
- Open the sample running Visual Studio as administrator and build the project (admin privileges are required because a virtual directory is used).
- Login to Portal and go to your newly created resource group and the storage account within it
- Select the Azure Storage > Access Keys (copy paste into the config) & Azure Notification Namespace > Notification Hub > Access Keys
- set
"AzureBlobConnectionString": "{your connection string here}" - set
"NotificationHubConnectionString": "{your connection string here}"
Deployment of the Azure Infrastructure will also update connection strings of created resources in the source code so no changes are required to get the sample running in azure;
however connection strings will be required for Storage Account & Notification Hub, these are updated in appsettings.json
Azure Notification Hub requires clients to be registered with the back-end service,
as well as notifications for specific client OS.
A template has been created for messages in PushNotifications/HubMessage.cs & a template for sending a message in PushNotification/AzureHubNotification.csx, implement your own logic here for sending push notifications to specific clients.
Create your Photon Realtime account login and create a new app. Use the Url from your hosted Azure Web Api e.g. https://photoncloud.azurewebsites.net.
Hit Manage -> Create Web Hook, set your Url and Paths for the controllers and hit apply.
Your Photon Cloud Realtime account is now pointing to your Azure Web Api