How to get the message_id? - Chat

There is a message_id, a unique identifier associated with every message.

This can be obtained from the following ways -

Whenever you send a message, you get the API response with the message_id as below -

const conversation = /await/ client.channel(‘messaging’, {
    members: [‘Seetha’,’Lakshmi’],
    channel_name: ‘Private channel’
});

const creation = /await/ conversation.create();

const message1 = /await/ conversation.sendMessage({
  text: ‘One on On channel’ + userID,
   mentioned_users: [‘Seetha’, ‘Lakshmi’],
   silent: true,
  anotherCustomField: 123
});

console.log(message1)

API response -

{
  message: {
    id: 'efec36da-042b-4333-a807-c5e2e056f2e5',
    text: 'One on On channelLakshmi',
    html: '<p>One on On channelLakshmi</p>\n',
    type: 'regular',
    user: {
      id: 'Lakshmi',
      role: 'admin',
      created_at: '2020-09-16T05:08:11.574631Z',
      updated_at: '2021-01-20T00:46:05.549504Z',
      last_active: '2021-01-20T00:46:05.549504Z',
      banned: false,
      online: true,
      image: 'https://getstream.io/random_svg/?name=adminuser'
    },
    attachments: [],
    latest_reactions: [],
    own_reactions: [],
    reaction_counts: null,
    reaction_scores: {},
    reply_count: 0,
    cid: 'messaging:!members-hSUVG40y536k9ymCnlS9dxIopy-mZKHcolJyc1I7doo',
    created_at: '2021-01-20T00:57:44.859177Z',
    updated_at: '2021-01-20T00:57:44.859177Z',
    shadowed: false,
    mentioned_users: [ [Object], [Object] ],
    silent: true,
    pinned: false,
    pinned_at: null,
    pinned_by: null,
    pin_expires: null,
    anotherCustomField: 123
  },
  duration: '17.72ms'
}

You can also choose to fetch the message_id from the Channel’s state where all the messages can be found.

const query_info =  /await/ client.queryChannels({  channel_name: ‘Private channel’ });

console.log(query_info[0].state.messages)

You can also search for a message and get its message_id as below -

const filters = { members: { $in: [‘Seetha’] } };

const search = /await/ client.search(
   filters,
   ‘One on On channelLakshmi’,
   { limit: 2, offset: 0 },
);

console.log(search.results[0].message.id)