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PushEvent: PushEvent() constructor

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Secure contextAvailable in workers

The PushEvent() constructor creates a new PushEvent object. Note that this constructor is exposed only to a service worker context.

Syntax

new PushEvent(type)
new PushEvent(type, options)

Parameters

  • type
    • : A string with the name of the event. It is case-sensitive and browsers set it to push or pushsubscriptionchange.
  • options Optional
    • : An object that, in addition of the properties defined in ExtendableEvent(), can have the following properties:
      • data
        • : The data you want the PushEvent to contain, if any. When the constructor is invoked, the data property of the resulting object will be set to a new PushMessageData object containing these bytes.

Return value

A new PushEvent object.

Examples

const dataInit = {
  data: "Some sample text",
};

const myPushEvent = new PushEvent("push", dataInit);

myPushEvent.data.text(); // should return 'Some sample text'

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also