Delete channels

Remove a channel permanently or soft-delete it (keeping historical data in App Context storage) with delete() or deleteChannel().

Both methods produce the same result. Call delete() on a Channel object or deleteChannel() on the Chat object with the channel ID.

Requires App Context

Enable App Context for your keyset in the Admin Portal.

Method signature

These methods take the following parameters:

• delete()

  1channel.delete(
  2    soft: Boolean = false
  3): PNFuture<Channel>

• deleteChannel()

  1chat.deleteChannel(
  2    id: String,
  3    soft: Boolean = false
  4): PNFuture<Channel>

Input

Parameter	Required in delete()	Required in deleteChannel()	Description
id Type: String Default: false	No	Yes	Unique channel identifier.
soft Type: Boolean Default: false	No	No	Define if you want to permanently remove channel metadata. The channel metadata gets permanently deleted from the App Context storage by default. If you set this parameter to true, the Channel object gets the deleted status, and you can still restore/get its data.

Output

Type	Description
PNFuture<Channel>	For hard delete, the method returns the last version of the Channel object before it was permanently deleted. For soft delete, PNFuture containing an updated channel instance with the status field set to deleted.

Sample code

Permanently delete the support channel metadata.

• delete()

  1// reference the "channel" object and invoke the "delete()" method
  2chat.getChannel("support").async { result ->
  3    result.onSuccess { channel ->
  4        if (channel != null) {
  5            channel.delete().async { result2 -> ... }
  6        }
  7    }.onFailure {
  8        // handle failure
  9    }
  10}

• deleteChannel()

  1// reference the "chat" object and invoke the "deleteChannel()" method. By default, the "soft" parameter is set to "false" and can be skipped.
  2chat.deleteChannel("support").async { result ->
  3    result.onSuccess {
  4        // handle success
  5    }.onFailure {
  6        // handle failure
  7    }
  8}

Other examples

Archive (soft delete) the channel with the ID of support, keeping its data in the App Context storage.

• delete()

  1// reference the "channel" object and invoke the "delete()" method
  2chat.getChannel("support").async { result ->
  3    result.onSuccess { channel ->
  4        if (channel != null) {
  5            channel.delete(soft = true).async { result2 -> ... }
  6        }
  7    }.onFailure {
  8        // handle failure
  9    }
  10}

• deleteChannel()

  1chat.deleteChannel("support", soft = true).async { result ->
  2    result.onSuccess {
  3        // handle success
  4    }.onFailure {
  5        // handle failure
  6    }
  7}