This simplifies the operation of the API a bit, but more importantly
this will let us create a demo where we can manipulate the API result
and test various new notification formats while the work on the
backend API responses is ongoing, and also will allow us to have a
constant test for all notifications types, including backwards
compatibility.
Change-Id: I6081329a287cda4f5f1f1604ace5d04ff8d9fe3d