Push does not work as written in tutorial for Windows

[Lukenickerson]

Following along the instructions on http://docs.phonegap.com/develop/push-notifications/ with the default push example that is included with the Windows Phonegap app gives an error on the first "Sending Your First Push" step. I've found that doing phonegap push --deviceID [whatever device id] --service gcm --payload '{ "data": { "title": "Hello", "message": "World"} }' (with the appropriate device id entered) gives this error when using PowerShell:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token d in JSON at position 2
at Object.parse (native)
at PushCommand.execute
at PushCommand.run
at PhoneGap.push
at CLI.module.exports [as push]
at CLI.module.exports [as argv]
at runPhoneGapCommand
at Object.
at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)

And a similar, but different, error when using the vanilla command prompt:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ' in JSON at position 0

System: Windows 10, using Phonegap 6.4.3

Expected: Instructions would say that they are incompatible with Windows, or provide alternative command line instructions.

[racingsolution]

Try this

phonegap push --deviceID [whatever device id] --service gcm --payload '{ "data": { "title": "Hello", "message": "World"} }'

[racingsolution]

Well that didn't work. Add a backslash before each double quote

[Lukenickerson]

Thanks @racingsolution .

Outer single quotes and escaped double-quotes worked in PowerShell:
phonegap push --deviceID [the long device id] --service gcm --payload '{ \"data\": { \"title\": \"Hello\", \"message\": \"World\"} }'

...whereas outer double-quotes was necessary in the Windows command prompt:
phonegap push --deviceID [the long device id] --service gcm --payload "{ \"data\": { \"title\": \"Hello\", \"message\": \"World\"} }"

I would recommend that these instructions be included in the docs.phonegap.com documentation.

[macdonst]

@Lukenickerson thanks for pointing this out. I will update the docs. I've added Windows command line instructions in my push workshops but I forgot to update docs.phonegap.com.

[LV8or]

I have tried to run this on Windows to test on my phone (Galaxy S7) and in Chrome. When I use my phone device id it returns back with body: OK, but I do not get a message. When I put in my browser device id, the terminal freezes. Is there anything else I should be doing?