Google Voice (SMS) with TDI

Recently I've been working on an Assemblyline line which needed to send sms notification.  As most know, TDI already provides a sendMail() method in its UserFunction class to send email.  Using this method allows messages to be sent to phone numbers which have a service provider email address (e.g. 5552224444@txt.att.net).

However some providers like Google Voice(GV), do not provide this number@email option.
So with this limitation it took a little searching to find another option.

I found by using the google-voice-java API (api docs) we can send sms messages via TDI directly to a phone number, instead of relying on a phonenumber@email address.

JARs are available at:
http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-java/downloads/list

At the time of this posting, there were 5 jars (google-voice-java-1.14-java6.jar, dom4j-1.6.1.jar,
jaxen-1.1.3.jar, json.jar, jtidy.jar).
Simply add the jars to the <TDI>\jars\3rdparty\others\GoogleVoice directory

You can then use the following function from your Resource/Script library to to send sms from TDI by the way of Google Voice.



/*
 * sendGVsms uses the api made available at
 * http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-java/w/list
 */
function sendGVsms(dst,txt){
    try{
        destinationNumber = dst;
        txt = txt;
        username = system.getTDIProperty("gvuserName")
        pass = system.getTDIProperty("gvpass")
        var gvoice = Packages.com.techventus.server.voice.Voice(username,pass);
        gvoice.sendSMS(destinationNumber,txt);
        } catch (e) {
            task.logmsg(">>sms error " +e);
    }
}


NOTE:  You will need to add Google's  public certificate to the TDI truststore, otherwise you'll receive a 'java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException' when calling the class.

I used the following information to obtain and add the certificate to the TDI truststore.

1. Obtaining the Google certificate
a. 


b. 


c.

d.  Choose a 'Save as type' of DER when exporting the certificate.

2. Adding the certificate into the default TDI truststore.
By default, a TDI 7.x installation uses the serverapi/truststore.jks as its truststore.
This file location may vary depending on if you have a specific Solution Directory, or if the TDI Install directory is the Solution directory.  You can refer to the contents of the <TDI_Install>/bin/defaultSolDir.bat to determine the default Solution directory.

The TDI Component as a Client section in the TDI Infocenter discusses the importation of a certificate.
Here's an example of the command to import the google certificate into the testadmin.jks file.

<TDI>/jvm/jre/bin/keytool -import -trustcacerts -file google.der -keystore testadmin.jks -storepass administrator -alias googleCert