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.