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Banning and Muting Users

PubNub Access Manager enables you to manage access controls for individual users so they can be muted and banned on specific channels. It's important to be able to ban users if they're sharing inappropriate content or are violating other terms of use defined on your application.

Ban user in channels

To ban a user in channels, call the grant method and set the read and write permissions on the channels to false.

Go to SDK

pubnub.grant({
  channels: ['ch-1','ch-2'], //channels to allow grant on
  authKeys: ['key1'], // the keys we are provisioning
  read: false,
  write: false,
}, (status) => {
  // handle status
});

Go to SDK

pubnub.grant()
    .channels(Arrays.asList("ch-1")) //channels to allow grant on
    .authKeys(Arrays.asList("key1")) // the keys we are provisioning
    .write(false) // allow those keys to write (false by default)
    .read(false) // allow keys to read the subscribe feed (false by default)
    .async(new PNCallback<PNAccessManagerGrantResult>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(PNAccessManagerGrantResult result, PNStatus status) {
            // PNAccessManagerGrantResult is a parsed and abstracted response from server
        }
    });

Go to SDK

pubnub.Grant()
    .Channels(new string[]{
        "ch-1"
    })
    .AuthKeys(new string[] {
        "key1"
    })
    .Write(false) // allow those keys to write (false by default)
    .Read(false) // allow keys to read the subscribe feed (false by default)
    .Execute(new PNAccessManagerGrantResultExt(
        (result, status) => {
            // PNAccessManagerGrantResult is a parsed and abstracted response from server
        }
    ));

Go to SDK

res, status, err := pn.Grant().
    Channels([]string{"ch-1"}). // channels to allow grant on
    AuthKeys([]string{"key1"}). // the keys we are provisioning
    Read(false). // allow those keys to write (false by default)
    Write(false). // allow those keys to manage channel groups (false by default)
    Execute()

fmt.Println(res, status, err)

Mute user in channels

To mute a user in channels, call the grant method and set the write permissions on the channels to false.

Go to SDK

pubnub.grant({
  channels: ['ch-1','ch-2'], //channels to allow grant on
  authKeys: ['key1'], // the keys we are provisioning
  write: false,
}, (status) => {
  // handle status
});

Go to SDK

pubnub.grant()
    .channels(Arrays.asList("ch-1")) //channels to allow grant on
    .authKeys(Arrays.asList("key1")) // the keys we are provisioning
    .write(false) // allow those keys to write (false by default)
    .async(new PNCallback<PNAccessManagerGrantResult>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(PNAccessManagerGrantResult result, PNStatus status) {
            // PNAccessManagerGrantResult is a parsed and abstracted response from server
        }
    });

Go to SDK

pubnub.Grant()
    .Channels(new string[]{
        "ch-1"
    })
    .AuthKeys(new string[] {
        "key1"
    })
    .Write(false) // allow those keys to write (false by default)
    .Execute(new PNAccessManagerGrantResultExt(
        (result, status) => {
            // PNAccessManagerGrantResult is a parsed and abstracted response from server
        }
    ));

Go to SDK

res, status, err := pn.Grant().
    Channels([]string{"ch-1"}). // channels to allow grant on
    AuthKeys([]string{"key1"}). // the keys we are provisioning
    Write(false). // allow those keys to manage channel groups (false by default)
    Execute()

fmt.Println(res, status, err)
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