Notifications -> Call external rest api

Dear All

https://www.traccar.org/notifications/

Here i see that Email, Push, SMS, Telegram and web are supported.

If i want to call an external rest api please suggest how can i achieve that.

Thanks in advance.

You can use SMS option.

Sorry Anton. Can you explain a bit more as to how can i use SMS option to call external rest API.

Many thanks.

It is configurable:

https://www.traccar.org/http-sms-api/

<entry key='notificator.types'>web,mail,sms</entry>
<entry key='sms.http.url'>https://<externalREST-API></entry>
<entry key='sms.http.authorization'>TOKEN</entry>
<entry key='sms.http.template'>
    {
        "to": "{phone}",
        "message": "{message}"
    }
</entry>

Hi Anton,

This is the traccar.xml that i need to modify right?

Also where can i modify the content of "message" value, so that i can include notification object details + geofence details.

Many thanks

Are you sure you want a notification and not event forwarding?

Can you kindly give little more details of you above suggestion.

Sorry Anton for asking too many questions.

Many thanks.

We have an option to forward event data to a webhook in JSON format. That sounds like what you're looking for. See configuration documentation for more info.

Thanks Anton.

I found this, hope this is the one you are referring to.

Can i pass authtoken in this because the external rest api server expects authtoken in the header. Hope i can add token like this .... <entry key="event.forward.header">Authorization: Bearer Token</entry>....

Config snippet

<!-- event forwarding -->
<entry key="event.forward.enable">true</entry>
<entry key='event.forward.url'>http://127.0.0.1:8840/evpos</entry>
<!-- <entry key='event.forward.header'>
         X-myheader: blabla
     Y-another: hello
     </entry> -->

Kindly ignore the above message.

Please confirm if the below config is ok, i want to just forward "geofence entered" events to external server....

    <entry key='event.forward.enable'>true</entry>
    <entry key='event.forward.url'>http://127.0.0.1:8099</entry>
    <entry key='event.forward.header'>content-type: application/json</entry>
    <entry key="event.forward.header">Authorization: Bearer Token</entry>

    <entry key='web.timeout'>900000</entry>

    <entry key='event.geofenceHandler'>true</entry>
    <entry key='event.alertHandler'>true</entry>

First of all, please make sure you only use parameters from here:

https://www.traccar.org/configuration-file/

Also, it's not possible to filter forwarded events. You have to filter on your receiving end.