REST request on Postman - Chat

How to submit a sendMessage request on Postman

Verb

• POST

URL

• https://chat.stream-io-api.com/channels/{{channel type}}/{{channel id}}/message?api_key={{api key}}
• This URL includes
  • Region - us-east
  • Channel type
  • Channel id (not cid)
  • Api key (not needed if provided in Authorization tab)

Authorization

• Type
  • Inherit auth from parent - If included in URL
  • API Key - If not included in URL
    • Key = api_key
    • Value = YOUR API KEY
    • Add to = Header

Headers - no quotes ("") around values

• Stream-Auth-Type
  • jwt
• Authorization
  • YOUR TOKEN
• Content-Type
  • application/json

Body

• raw
• JSON

{
  "message" : 
    {
      "text" : "Hello World",
      // include user object only if server side - change token to dev-token
      "user" : { "id" : "Lakshmi" }  
      "message_type": "system" // custom data
    } 
}

The API will not allow a user object to be sent in the message object if posting a message client-side. The user_id is already present in your included token.

If attempted, the API will return this error:
"message": "SendMessage failed with error: \"Setting message.user or message.user_id is only allowed when using server side auth.\""