[POC] Creating live ephemeral messages

[nuno-vieira]

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🎯 Goal

PoC to test how creating live ephemeral messages would work.

How to use

The ComposerVC example should be simple to understand on how to use it. There 3 new ChannelController methods:

• createEphemeralMessage(): This one creates the ephemeral message ready to be updated. You need to store the messageId somewhere.
• updateEphemeralMessage(): This one should be used to live update the content of the message.
• publishEphemeralMessage(): This one should be used to publish the message to the server.

There is also an alternative approach here that uses an EphemeralMessageUpdater object, but I think for now this one is simple enough. In the future we should refine and decide the final API. We could even opt for creating a new controller or object, that handles the state of the ephemeral message, but will discuss this internally.

Update

Tried a new, simpler version, which contains only 2 methods, and is easier to use:

• channelController.ephemeralMessageEditor.updateMessage(text:)
• channelController.ephemeralMessageEditor.publish()

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[nuno-vieira]

@martinmitrevski Closing it then, we can re-open if we revive this