Publishing a Text Message¶
Scenarios¶
After you publish a text message to a topic, SMN will deliver the message to all confirmed subscription endpoints in the topic.
Prerequisites¶
Subscribers in the topic must have confirmed the subscription, or they will not be able to receive any messages.
Procedure¶
Log in to the management console.
In the upper left corner of the page, click
and select the desired region and project.Select Simple Message Notification under Application.
The SMN console is displayed.
In the navigation pane, choose Topics.
The Topics page is displayed.
In the topic list, locate the topic that you need to publish a message to and click Publish Message in the Operation column.
Alternatively, locate the topic and click its name. In the upper right corner of the displayed topic details page, click Publish Message.
Configure the required parameters based on Table 1.
The topic name is provided by default and cannot be changed.
Table 1 Parameters required for publishing a message¶ Parameter
Description
Subject
(Optional) Specifies the message subject, which must be fewer than 512 bytes.
Message Format
Specifies in which format a message is published. You can select only one message format each time you publish a message.
Text: common text message
JSON: JSON message
Template: template message. For details, see Message Template Management.
Message
Specifies the message content. The message content cannot be left blank and its size cannot exceed 256 KB.
Figure 1 shows an example text message.
Figure 1 Text message example¶
Click OK.
SMN delivers your message to all subscription endpoints. For details about the messages received by each endpoint, see Messages Using Different Protocols.