How to interact with group chats?

[AidanLovelace]

Is there a way to interact with group chats? (Not the old p2p. The new ones. Like that random one I created 2 days ago.)

[demurgos]

You can send messages to group chats just as you send messages to simple contacts. Instead of using the contact id, use the group chat id (a string starting with 19:).

You can get events from group chats and respond to them but the API to list the group chats you are participating in is missing at the moment.

const onMessage = (resource: resources.TextResource): void => {
  const conversationId: string = resource.conversation;
  // This is the id of the simple contact or group chat
  console.log(conversationId);
  // There was a recent update to help to handle resources by id:
  // import * as mri from "skype-http/mri"
  // if (mri.parse(conversationId).type === mri.MriType.GroupConversation) {
  //  console.log("This is a group conversation");
  // }
  api.sendMessage({textContent: "Hello, World!"}, conversationId).catch(console.error);
};

api.on("Text", onMessage);
api.on("RichText", onMessage);

[demurgos]

I haven't looked into it but if you find the API endpoint to list the currently existing group chats, it would be a nice addition.

[demurgos]

https://client-s.gateway.messenger.live.com/v1/users/ME/conversations?startTime=1514877701928&pageSize=100&view=msnp24Equivalent&targetType=Passport|Skype|Lync|Thread|PSTN

The method above lists the available conversations: PMs and group chats. I'll try to add support for this as soon as possible. You can then use sendMessage with the id of the conversation to send messages to group chats.

[demurgos]

Huh, well. It turns out that the method to get the conversations already exists 😄 : https://github.com/ocilo/skype-http/blob/faf48795e7cbb041cf337cbe5ee8e98bfc414187/src/lib/api.ts#L69

Still, I'll update the types to match the contacts API.

[demurgos]

Updating the conversation types also requires me to update the message types. It will improve the health of the lib a lot but requires more time. I started work on my repo. I'll probably finish it next week.