Payloads

All Notify payloads define an Activity Streams 2.0 activity, and include other properties from the Notify context. They may also, optionally, include other properties from other contexts. The following properties from Activity Streams 2.0 are used consistently in all the notification patterns:

  • The activity must contain the following properties:
    • @context: This is the JSON-LD 'context' for the activity.
    • id: This must be a URI, and the use of URN:UUID is recommended. An HTTP URI may be used, but in such cases the URI should resolve to a resource which represents the activity.
    • type: This should include one of the Activity Stream 2.0 Activity Types. It may (depending on the activity) also include a type from the Notify Activity Types vocabulary
    • origin: The originator of the activity, typically the service responsible for sending the notification.
    • object: This should be the focus of the activity. Other object properties may appear in notifications, as properties of other properties.
    • target: The intended destination of the activity, typically the service which consumes the notification.
  • The activity property may (and often will) contain the following properties:
    • actor: This identifies the party or process that initiated the activity.
    • inReplyTo: This property is used when the notification is a direct response to a previous notification (usually a request) and references the Activity Streams 2.0 activity id of the previous notification.
    • context: This identifies another resource which is relevant to understanding the notification.