How to use Write API to chat with user in a chat room

aneeeshp

Hi,
I tried to user Write API`s chat route /api/v1/users/<uid>/chats in order to chat with user using a bot. However every time when I am sending a message, it is creating a new chatroom. The POST operation onto /api/v1/users/<uid>/chats is creating a chat room & returning its id.

{"code":"ok","payload":{"content":"<p>Hello</p>\n","timestamp":1498844643722,"fromuid":18,"roomId":8,"messageId":133,"fromUser":{"username":"mbatious","userslug":"mbatious","picture":"/uploads/profile/18-profileimg.png","status":"offline","uid":18,"icon:text":"M","icon:bgColor":"#f44336"},"self":1,"timestampISO":"2017-06-30T17:44:03.722Z","newSet":true,"cleanedContent":"Hello\n","mid":133}}

However I am not finding a way use this roomId in further messages. The only parameters accepted in /api/v1/users/<uid>/chats API are message, timestamp & quiet. How to continue chat in a previously created room?

yariplus

No such function yet. Sorry.

aneeeshp

Can it be achieved with some code changes in writeapi plugin? Could you help me with some starting point in code to achieve this?

yariplus

I think so, I'll take a look.

yariplus

Kinda got over-excited. Basically, just added a parameter roomId to the existing route. If it exists, it posts to the existing room.

https://github.com/yariplus/nodebb-plugin-write-api/blob/203f8848d467b606f1f22c16cdbeac078fa23980/routes/v2/users.js#L84-L118

julian

v5.0.1, thanks @yariplus !

aneeeshp

@yariplus Thank you. This helps a lot.

orweinberger

Thanks @yariplus, I also found this very useful.

Joykiller

nice @yariplus Gonna be using this for my stuff

ptrus

@yariplus thank you, this helped me a lot!

another question: is it possible somehow to set the chat-attribute 'unread' from true to false.

at the moment it only switches to false when i reply in the chat.