Does the project use deprecated api endpoints for the fcm cloud messaging platform?

[TeoMastro]

Describe the feature you would like to see

First of all sorry for the long sheet that you will see bellow, I just need a place to discuss some of the concerns I have.

I want to send push notifications from my php backend to my hybrid ionic mobile applications (I use a REST API so that the mobile and web app can communicate). I want to be able to use topics and all the features from my web server environment.
I did a lot of research on using the fcm cloud messaging from the backend of my php yii2 application and I could not manage to find an original package to do so. From what I saw in the docs, there are official libraries only for node, java, python, go and c#. That's how I ended up in this plugin.

My concern is that just by using api requests I can just access this endpoind => https://fcm.googleapis.com/v1/projects/project-id/messages:send, which just sends a notification to a single device or topic.
I want to be able to do topic management in the server.
From what I saw this plugin allows that. But does it use endpoints internally that are deprecated at the moment (original migration guide)? Or maybe I am missing something???

For example:

use Kreait\Firebase\Messaging\CloudMessage;

$message = CloudMessage::new(); // Any instance of Kreait\Messaging\Message
$deviceTokens = ['...', '...' /* ... */];

/** @var Kreait\Firebase\Messaging\MulticastSendReport $sendReport **/
$sendReport = $messaging->sendMulticast($message, $deviceTokens);

Does this example from the doc use any deprecated api endpoint under the hood?

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Thanks for your time and excuse me for the long text, I just could not exactly understand what is deprecated and what isn't in the FCM Messaging ecosystem. I think Google kinda mixes everything up and the original documentation is not very clear.

[jeromegamez]

Hey there, and thank you for taking time to make the text more than just a two-liner 🙏🏻

In the 7.x releases, no deprecated/shut-down API endpoints are used. Previous releases continued to work until Firebase shut down the legacy API, so, if you want to use FCM, you need to use a 7.c release (preferably the latest one 😅)

As for the sendMulticast() method - it creates copies of the given message, modifies it to use the given registration tokens, and then forwards it to the sendAll() method.

The PHP SDK supports topic management as well.

The only drawback here is that the PHP SDK is unofficial and doesn't have all the features the official SDKs have - this is due to the fact that I'm a one-man-team and my work is practically unpaid (I currently get $55 a month).

I hope this answers your question!

[TeoMastro]

Thank you very much for the reply and the awesome plugin!