Edit a Message

Overview#

Edit message is a feature which allows you to edit the content of your previously sent Text Messages and Captions associated with Media (image or video) in your chat conversation.

Note : User can edit only Sent Messages.

Edit Text Message#

To Edit your text message, you need to pass the EditMessage object as an argument to the parameter in the editTextMessage() method.

Java
Kotlin

EditMessage editMessage = new EditMessage();
editMessage.setMessageId(MESSAGE_ID);
editMessage.setEditedTextContent(EDITED_TEXT_CONTENT);
editMessage.setMentionedUsersIds(MENTION_IDS); // Optional

FlyMessenger.editTextMessage(editMessage, (isSuccess, error, chatMessage) -> {
    if (isSuccess) {
     //find the index of message object in list using messageId
     //then fetch message object from db using `FlyMessenger.getMessageOfId(messageId)` and notify the item in list
    }
});

Argument	Type	Description
EDIT_MESSAGE_PARAMS	`EditMessage`	Object to hold the parameters of the Edit Message
CALLBACK	`SendMessageCallback`	callback to observe the action status

info

When a message is being edited, onMessageEdited event will be triggered. Based on this event, update the message and refresh the UI.

Edit Media Caption Message#

To Edit your media caption message, you need to pass the EditMessage object as an argument to the parameter in the editMediaCaption() method.

Java
Kotlin

EditMessage editMessage = new EditMessage();
editMessage.setMessageId(MESSAGE_ID);
editMessage.setEditedTextContent(EDITED_TEXT_CONTENT);
editMessage.setMentionedUsersIds(MENTION_IDS); // Optional

FlyMessenger.editMediaCaption(editMessage, (isSuccess, error, chatMessage) -> {
    if (isSuccess) {
     //find the index of message object in list using messageId
     //then fetch message object from db using `FlyMessenger.getMessageOfId(messageId)` and notify the item in list
    }
});

Argument	Type	Description
EDIT_MESSAGE_PARAMS	`EditMessage`	Object to hold the parameters of the Edit Message
CALLBACK	`SendMessageCallback`	callback to observe the action status

info

When a message is being edited, onMessageEdited event will be triggered. Based on this event, update the message and refresh the UI.