Subscription and notifications

[Balajijana]

Hi,

  I am new to fitbit integration in my application. I need few things to be clarified.

1. Is Subscription is compulsory to get the notifications?

2. Also I tried without subscription, by hitting the api of all the resources by passing the required values and feel that i am able to get it.

I need to know the purpose of the subscription.

[StefanS]

The purpose of the subscription is so that you can get a very lightweight notification when someone's data has been updated, that way you are able to retrieve the data only when something has changed.

[AndrewFitbit]

Thanks @StefanS!

@Balajijana If you haven't already, you should definitely review the section in our documentation that has more info about subscriptions.

[Balajijana]

Hi,

 Thanks for your suggestion. I read the api doc. I came through the following line : "Subscriber endpoints created before December 1st, 2015 are encouraged to implement the following verification test, but are not required to do so." So in this case if nay end points are added today means i dont need to check the verification case. Am i right?