Complete Guide to Retrieving Messages in React Chat SDK

Get Reply Message

To get the reply message by message id, send a request to the server as described below.

await SDK.getReplyMessage(`REPLY_MESSAGE_ID`, `CHAT_TYPE`);

Request Params

Status	Description	Type	Required
REPLY_MESSAGE_ID	Reply Message ID	String	true
CHAT_TYPE	Chat Type	String	false

Note: CHAT_TYPE values are "chat"/"groupchat"

Response Format

{

statusCode: 200,

message: "Success",

data: {

fromUserId: "", // String - Reply From User Id

oldMsgId: "", // String - Old Message Id

replyMsgId: "", // String - Reply Message Id

replyMsgContent: {

message: "", //String - Message

message_type: "", //String - Message Type

mentionedUsersIds: [], // Array - Mentioned Ids In case of Group

nickName: "", ////String - nickname

replyTo: "" , //String - Reply To

},

chatType: "", // String - Chat Type

deletedBy: "", // String - Deleted By

deleteStatus: 0 // Number - Delete Status

}

}

Get Media Messages

To get the media messages for the particular chat, on initial request it fetches three media. Then on the pagination request by passing the last message-id, it fetches 10 next media messages.

caution

If getMediaMessages feature is unavailable for your plan, then it will throw 403 exception

Without Pagination

await SDK.getMediaMessages({

toJid: ""

});

Without Pagination By Topic id

await SDK.getMediaMessages({

toJid: "",

topicId: ""

});

With Pagination

await SDK.getMediaMessages({

toJid: "",

lastMsgId: "",

topicId: ""

});

Request Param

Status	Description	Type	Required
toJid	JID of the To User	JID String	true
lastMsgId	Last Message ID of Pagination	String	false
topicId	Topic id for the messages	String	false

Response Format

{

statusCode: 200,

message: "Success",

data: [

{

chatype: "", // String - Chat Type - Values "chat"

media: {

androidHeight: 188, // Number - Android Height -Only For Image/Video

androidWidth: 250, // Number - Android Width -Only For Image/Video

caption: "", // String - Media Caption

duration: 29070, // Number - Duration - For Audio/Videos, Otherwise 0

file: { // Object - File

caption: "", // String - Caption - Only for Image/Video

fileDetails: {

androidHeight: 188, // Number - Android Height - For Video

androidWidth: 250, // Number - Android Width - For Video

audioType: "", // String - AudioType - Only for Audio

duration: 30800, // Number - Duration -Only for Audio/Video

fileId: "", // String - File Id

imageUrl: "", // String - Image Url - For Image/Video/Audio

msgType: "", // String - MessageType - Image/Video/Audio/File

replyTo: "", // String - MessageId - For reply message

originalHeight: 240, // Number - Original Height - For Video

originalWidth: 320, // Number - Original Width - For Video

webHeight: 248, // Number - Web Height - For Video

webWidth: 330 // Number - Web Width - For Video

}

mentionedUsersIds: [] // Array - In case of GroupChat - for Image/Video

}

fileName: "", // String - File Name

file_key: "", // String - File Key

file_size: 543879, // Number - File Size

file_url: "", // String - File Url

is_downloaded: 0, // Number - Downloaded Status

is_uploading: 2, // Number - Uploading Status

local_path: "", // String - Local Path

msgId: "", // String - MessageId

originalHeight: 240, // Number - Original Height -Only For Image/Video

originalWidth: 320, // Number - Original Width -Only For Image/Video

thumb_image: "", // Base64 - Thumb Image

webHeight: 248, // Number - Web Height -Only For Image/Video

webWidth: 330 // Number - Web Width -Only For Image/Video

},

metaData: {}, //Object - Meta data for the message

mentionedUsersIds: [], // Array - MentionedUsersIds, Incase of GroupChat

topicId: "", //String - Topic id for the message

message: "", // String - Message Object

message_type: "", // String - Message Type

msgId: "", // String - Message Id

nickName: "", // String - Nickname

timestamp: 1681185232000, // Number - TimeStamp - Milliseconds

},

//...

];

}

Get Chat Messages

To get the chat history of the selected user, send a request to the server as described below.

Without Pagination

await SDK.getChatMessages({

toJid: ""

});

Without Pagination By Topic id

await SDK.getChatMessages({

toJid: "",

topicId: ""

});

With Pagination using Row id

await SDK.getChatMessages({

toJid: "",

position: "",

lastRowId: "",

limit: "",

topicId: ""

});

With Pagination using Message id

await SDK.getChatMessages({

toJid: "",

position: "",

lastMessageId: "",

limit: "",

topicId: "",

includeMsgObj: "" // Boolean - Include lastMessageId message object

});

Example

await SDK.getChatMessages({

toJid: "91XXXXXXXXXX@domain.com",

position: "down",

lastRowId: "12345", // or lastMessageId = "ab123"

limit: 20,

topicId: "abcd-123"

});

Request Params

Status	Description	Type	Required
toJid	JID of the To User/Group	JID String	true
position	Position for Pagination	String	false
lastRowId	Last Row ID of Pagination	String	false
limit	Pagination Limit	Number	false
topicId	Topic id for the messages	String	false
lastMessageId	Last Message ID of Pagination	String	false
includeMsgObj	Include or not passing lastMessageId message object	Boolean	false

Note: POSITION - Accepts "down"/"up", "includeMsgObj" - Applicable only to message id with pagination method

Response Format

{

statusCode: 200,

message: "Success",

userJid: "", // String - Requested User Jid

data: [

{

deleteStatus: "", // Number - Delete Status

favouriteBy: "", // String - Favourited By - User

favouriteStatus: "", // String - Favourite Status

fromUserId: "", // String - From User Id

metaData: {}, //Object - Meta data for the message

msgBody: {

media: { // For Media Message Only

caption: "", // String - Media Caption

duration: "", // String - Duration - For Audio/Videos

fileName: "", // String - File Name

file_size: "", // Number - File Size

file_url: "", // String - File Url

is_downloaded: "", // Number - Downloaded Status

is_uploading: "", // Number - Uploading Status

local_path: "", // String - Local Path

thumb_image: "", // Base64 - Thumb Image

isLargeFile: "" , //Boolean - Large file upload

}

message: "", // String - Message Body

message_type: "" // String - Message Type

mentionedUsersIds: [],

nickName: ""

},

fromUserJid: "", // String - From User Jid

topicId: "", //String - Topic id for the message

msgId: "", // String - Unique Message Id

msgStatus: "", // String - Message Status

createdAt: "", // String - Message Created Time

timestamp: 1681185232000, // Number - TimeStamp - Milliseconds

rowId: "", // String - Table Row Id - Used for Fetching Next Paginated Messages

chatType: "", // String - Chat Type - "chat"

editedStatus: 0, // Number - Edited status - 0 or 1

editMessageId: "", // String - Edit MessageId

},

//...

];

}

Get Message based on MsgId

Use the below method to get the message using the messageId which you got.

SDK.getMessageById(`MSG_ID`);

Example Request

SDK.getMessageById(`815f37b5-1f8f-4a39-8237-247c44b1b521`);

Response Format

{

statusCode: 200,

message: "Success",

data:{

chatType: "", // String - Chat Type - "chat" - Single - "groupchat" - Group

createdAt: "", // String - CreatedAt - "2023-04-11 09:23:52"

deleteStatus: 0, // Number - Delete Status

deletedBy: "0", // String - Deleted By

fromUserId: "", // String - From User Id

fromUserJid: "", // String - From User Jid -

// Will Be Same as PublisherJid in Case of Single Chat

// GroupJid in Case of Group Chat

msgBody: {

message: '', // String - Message Body

message_type: '', // String - Message Type text, image, video, audio & file

mentionedUsersIds: [], // Array - Mentioned Ids In case of Group

nickName: '', // String - User Nickname

}

msgId: "", // String - Message Id

metaData: {}, //Object - Meta data for the message

topicId: "", //String - Topic id for the message

msgStatus: 2, // Number - Message Status

msgType: "", // String - value ""

profileUpdatedStatus: "" // String

publisherJid: "", // String - Jid - PublisherJid

publisherId: "", // String - Id - Publisher Id

timestamp: 1681185232000, // Number - TimeStamp - Milliseconds

userId: "", // String - UserId

userJid: "", // String - UserJid

editedStatus: 0, // Number - Edited status - 0 or 1

editMessageId: "", // String - Edit MessageId

},

}

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Translate Message

Get All Available Translate Languages

Retrives all Available languages for the Translate from the Google API.

caution

If Translation feature is unavailable for your plan, then it will throw 403 exception

SDK.getTranslateLanguages(`API_KEY`, `TARET_LANGUAGE`);

Example Request

Retrives the Translated Text for the provided Text with Target Language.

SDK.getTranslateLanguages(`AIza******************`, `en`);

Response Format:

{

statusCode: 200,

message: "Success",

data: {

languages: [

{

language: "af" name: "Afrikaans"

},

{

language: "sq", name: "Albanian"

},

//...

]

}

}

Translate the Message

caution

If Translation feature is unavailable for your plan, then it will throw 403 exception

SDK.translateText(`API_KEY`, `MESSAGE_TO_TRANSLATE`, `TARET_LANGUAGE`);

Example Request

SDK.translateText(`AIza******************`, `Hello, This is Sample Text`, `ta`);

Response Format:

{

statusCode: 200,

message: "Success",

data: {

translations: [

{

detectedSourceLanguage: "ta",

translatedText: "வணக்கம்"

}

]

}

}