Client side data change events

General
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This is just something I’ve seen on a few similar services that I can’t seem to find in backendless. What I’m trying to do is have it so information is updated only when needed on my clients.

Just as an example imagine we have a data table for Stores that contains information about their open and close times and such. I don’t want to be checking my data every 5 minutes to check that I’m up to date because it’s a waste of bandwidth and requests.

If this feature isn’t implemented is there another way I could accomplish something like this?

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Hi Ben,

It is on our roadmap. I hope it will be available before the end of the year.

Regards,
Mark

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So, any progress as of late?

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Right now we’re focusing on the 4.0 release. Data push to the clients is tentatively scheduled for 4.1. As a workaround, you can notify clients using the following approach:

    Create a "server object listener" mechanism where a client can "subscribe" to receive updates. This could be done by creating a messaging channel corresponding to the table (or even object) for which you'd like to be notified. Add "before" (or "after") server-side event handler. When an object is updated, send a silent push notification to the channel corresponding to the object/table. All devices will be automatically notified.
Regards, Mark
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Currently using the first suggestion, just figured I’d check to see if the feature is still planned. Thanks Mark.