ServiceWorkerGlobalScope: pushsubscriptionchange event

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The pushsubscriptionchange event is sent to the global scope of a ServiceWorker to indicate a change in push subscription that was triggered outside the application's control.

This may occur if the subscription was refreshed by the browser, but it may also happen if the subscription has been revoked or lost.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("pushsubscriptionchange", (event) => {});

onpushsubscriptionchange = (event) => {};

Event type

A generic Event.

Usage notes

Although examples demonstrating how to share subscription related information with the application server tend to use fetch(), this is not necessarily the best choice for real-world use, since it will not work if the app is offline, for example.

Consider using another method to synchronize subscription information between your service worker and the app server, or make sure your code using fetch() is robust enough to handle cases where attempts to exchange data fail.

Note: In earlier drafts of the specification, this event was defined to be sent when a PushSubscription has expired.

Examples

This example, run in the context of a service worker, listens for a pushsubscriptionchange event and re-subscribes to the lapsed subscription.

js
self.addEventListener(
  "pushsubscriptionchange",
  (event) => {
    const conv = (val) =>
      btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint8Array(val)));
    const getPayload = (subscription) => ({
      endpoint: subscription.endpoint,
      publicKey: conv(subscription.getKey("p256dh")),
      authToken: conv(subscription.getKey("auth")),
    });

    const subscription = self.registration.pushManager
      .subscribe(event.oldSubscription.options)
      .then((subscription) =>
        fetch("register", {
          method: "post",
          headers: {
            "Content-type": "application/json",
          },
          body: JSON.stringify({
            old: getPayload(event.oldSubscription),
            new: getPayload(subscription),
          }),
        }),
      );
    event.waitUntil(subscription);
  },
  false,
);

When a pushsubscriptionchange event arrives, indicating that the subscription has expired, we resubscribe by calling the push manager's subscribe() method. When the returned promise is resolved, we receive the new subscription. This is delivered to the app server using a fetch() call to post a JSON formatted rendition of the subscription's endpoint to the app server.

You can also use the onpushsubscriptionchange event handler property to set up the event handler:

js
self.onpushsubscriptionchange = (event) => {
  event.waitUntil(
    self.registration.pushManager
      .subscribe(event.oldSubscription.options)
      .then((subscription) => {
        /* ... */
      }),
  );
};

Specifications

Specification
Push API
# the-pushsubscriptionchange-event
Push API
# dom-serviceworkerglobalscope-onpushsubscriptionchange

Browser compatibility

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See also