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Introduction

The meeting chat object is stored in meeting.chat, which has methods for sending and receiving messages. There are 3 types of messages that can be sent in chat - text messages, images, and files.

The meeting.chat.messages array contains all the messages that have been sent in the chat. This is an array of objects, where each object is of type ChatMessage.

The ChatMessage class has the following properties:

  • userId : UserID of the sender.
  • displayName : Display name of the sender.
  • read : Boolean whether the message is read or not.
  • pluginId : Plugin ID of the message.
  • time : Time at which the message was sent. It returns a String in milliseconds since epoch format.
  • type : MessageType for type of message being sent (whether text, image or file).

There are 3 message classes that extends ChatMessage, and each has some extra property in addition to ChatMessage properties:

  • TextMessage
  • ImageMessage
  • FileMessage

TextMessage:​

  • message: Text message sent.

ImageMessage:​

  • link: URL of the image sent.

FileMessage:​

  • name: Name of the file to be sent.
  • link: URL of the file sent.
  • size: Size of the file in bytes.