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Add support for driving iOS Live Activities through APNs broadcast channels, so one push updates every subscribed device instead of a push per device token.

  • PushAdmin.create_apns_broadcast() creates a broadcast channel and returns its ids as a PushApnsBroadcast
  • PushAdmin.live_activity exposes start(), update() and end(); start() targets either channels or a single deviceId, and APNs delivery headers travel in the request body

Tests cover broadcast channel creation, request paths and bodies for each Live Activity action, and recipient validation in start().

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  • New Features
    • Added support for iOS Live Activities, including starting, updating, and ending activities with APNs payloads.
    • Added APNs broadcast channel creation and access to broadcast and Apple channel IDs.
    • Live Activity starts support targeting a device or channels, with optional delivery headers.

Add experimental support for driving iOS Live Activities through APNs
broadcast channels, so one push updates every subscribed device instead
of a push per device token.

- PushAdmin.create_apns_broadcast() creates a broadcast channel and
  returns its ids as a PushApnsBroadcast
- PushAdmin.live_activity exposes start(), update() and end(); start()
  targets either channels or a single deviceId, and APNs delivery
  headers travel in the request body

Tests cover broadcast channel creation, request paths and bodies for
each Live Activity action, and recipient validation in start().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The push REST API now supports APNs broadcast creation and iOS Live Activity start, update, and end requests. It adds a response type for broadcast IDs and tests for request construction, recipient validation, and error handling.

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APNs Broadcasts and Live Activities

Layer / File(s) Summary
Broadcast creation and response type
ably/types/apnsbroadcast.py, ably/__init__.py, ably/rest/push.py, test/uts/rest/unit/push/push_admin_apns_broadcast_test.py
PushApnsBroadcast exposes the broadcast ID and Apple channel ID. PushAdmin.create_apns_broadcast posts the message storage policy and converts the response to that type. Tests cover the request, response, authorization, and server errors.
Live Activity actions
ably/rest/push.py, test/unit/push_live_activity_test.py, test/uts/rest/unit/push/push_admin_live_activity_test.py
PushAdmin.live_activity exposes start, update, and end operations. Start validates the recipient. The operations send APNs payloads and optional delivery headers. Tests cover request encoding, URL quoting, recipient validation, and errors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant PushAdmin
  participant PushLiveActivity
  participant AblyRESTAPI
  Caller->>PushAdmin: Access live_activity
  PushAdmin-->>Caller: Return PushLiveActivity
  Caller->>PushLiveActivity: Call start, update, or end
  PushLiveActivity->>AblyRESTAPI: POST action with APNs payload
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 20448

The new Live Activity tests include an assertion that always fails because it compares bytes with text. The test suite will fail until that comparison is fixed, which should happen before merging.

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A broadcast blooms for all to see.
Start, update, end go hopping through,
With headers tucked in packets too.
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Review comments at @test/uts/rest/unit/push/push_admin_live_activity_test.py:
- Line 92: Update the raw_path assertion to compare bytes by encoding the
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  • ably/__init__.py
  • ably/rest/push.py
  • ably/types/apnsbroadcast.py
  • test/unit/push_live_activity_test.py
  • test/uts/rest/unit/push/push_admin_apns_broadcast_test.py
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request = captured_requests[0]
# url.path is percent-decoded, so the encoding the spec asserts on is read off raw_path
encoded_id = quote('broadcast/with space', safe='')
assert request.url.raw_path == '/push/apnsBroadcastChannels/' + encoded_id + '/start'

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Compare the encoded path as bytes.

request.url.raw_path is bytes, but the expected path on Line 92 is str. This assertion fails even when the broadcast ID is encoded correctly. Encode the expected path before comparison. HTTPX defines raw_path as bytes in both 0.24.1 and 0.25.0. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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--- "a/test/uts/rest/unit/push/push_admin_live_activity_test.py"
+++ "b/test/uts/rest/unit/push/push_admin_live_activity_test.py"
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     request = captured_requests[0]
     # url.path is percent-decoded, so the encoding the spec asserts on is read off raw_path
     encoded_id = quote('broadcast/with space', safe='')
-    assert request.url.raw_path == '/push/apnsBroadcastChannels/' + encoded_id + '/start'
+    assert request.url.raw_path == f'/push/apnsBroadcastChannels/{encoded_id}/start'.encode('ascii')
 
     body = msgpack.unpackb(request.body)
     assert body['deviceId'] == 'device-7'
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assert request.url.raw_path == '/push/apnsBroadcastChannels/' + encoded_id + '/start'
assert request.url.raw_path == f'/push/apnsBroadcastChannels/{encoded_id}/start'.encode('ascii')
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Review comment at @test/uts/rest/unit/push/push_admin_live_activity_test.py at
line 92:
Update the raw_path assertion to compare bytes by encoding the expected path as
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