Content Filtering

One of the most powerful features of AMPS is content filtering. With content filtering, filters based on message content are applied at the server so that your application and the network are not utilized by messages that are not relevant to your application. For example, if your application is only displaying messages from a particular user, you can send a content filter to the server so that only messages from that particular user are sent to the client.

To apply a content filter to a subscription, simply pass it into the client.subscribe() call or use the set_filter method to add a filter to the command:

for message in client.subscribe(
    "letters",
    "/sender='mom'",
    timeout=5000):

   print("Mom says: %s" % message.get_data())

In this example, we have passed in a content filter /sender = 'mom'. This will result in the server only sending us messages from the messages topic that have the sender field equal to mom in the message.

For example, the AMPS server will send the following message, where /sender is mom:

{
    "sender" : "mom",
    "text" : "Happy Birthday!",
    "reminder" : "Call me Thursday!"
}

The AMPS server will not send a message with a different /sender value:

{
    "sender" : "henry dave",
    "text" : "Things do not change; we change."
}