Package org.pahappa.systems.whatsapphelper

Class WhatsAppClient

java.lang.Object

org.pahappa.systems.whatsapphelper.WhatsAppClient

public class WhatsAppClient
extends java.lang.Object

Class that handles the processing of the notification object. This class is responsible for performing Webhook verification, as well parsing the notification object.

Author:

katusiimeconrad

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
private java.lang.String	challenge	Used to verify the webhook.
private java.lang.String	mode	Stores the mode of the request e.g.
private java.lang.String	verificationToken	A token set by the application to use for authentication with the whatsapp endpoint.
private java.lang.String	verify_token	The secret key used to verify the webhook.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
WhatsAppClient(java.lang.String verificationToken)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	doAuth(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> params)	Performs the authentication of the webhook.
MessageEntity	getNotification(NotificationObject notificationObject)	Handles the receiving of the notifications from the whatsapp webhook.
java.lang.String	getVerificationToken()
void	setVerificationToken(java.lang.String verificationToken)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

mode

private java.lang.String mode

Stores the mode of the request e.g. "subscribe" or "unsubscribe".

verify_token

private java.lang.String verify_token

The secret key used to verify the webhook. To be set in the webhook configuration in WhatsApp.

challenge

private java.lang.String challenge

Used to verify the webhook.

verificationToken

private java.lang.String verificationToken

A token set by the application to use for authentication with the whatsapp endpoint. Set by me in this application

Constructor Detail

WhatsAppClient

public WhatsAppClient(java.lang.String verificationToken)

Method Detail

doAuth

public java.lang.String doAuth(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> params)
                        throws java.lang.Exception

Performs the authentication of the webhook. By extracting the token from the request and comparing it to the token set in the webhook configuration.

Returns:

challenge

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

getNotification

public MessageEntity getNotification(NotificationObject notificationObject)
                              throws java.lang.Exception

Handles the receiving of the notifications from the whatsapp webhook.

Receives the body of the request and extracts Message, From, To, Type and Id. Can be modified to extract more information from the request.

Returns the Notification object to the Caller.

Guide : ...

Parameters:

notificationObject - - the body of the request

Returns:

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

getVerificationToken

public java.lang.String getVerificationToken()

setVerificationToken

public void setVerificationToken(java.lang.String verificationToken)