Message Actions API for PubNub Swift Native SDK

Migration guide

The PubNub Swift 3.0 SDK contains many significant changes from the 2.x SDK, including breaking changes. Please refer to the PubNub Swift 3.0 Migration Guide for more details.

Add or remove actions on published messages to build features like receipts, reactions, or to associate custom metadata to messages. Clients can subscribe to a channel to receive message action events on that channel. They can also fetch past message actions from Message Persistence independently or when they fetch original messages.

Add Message Action​

Requires Message Persistence add-on

This method requires that the Message Persistence add-on is enabled for your key in the Admin Portal. Read the support page on enabling add-on features on your keys.

Description​

Add an action on a published message. Returns the added action in the response.

Method(s)​

To Add a Message Action you can use the following method(s) in the Swift SDK:

addMessageAction(  channel: String,  type actionType: String,  value: String,  messageTimetoken: Timetoken,  custom requestConfig: RequestConfiguration = RequestConfiguration(),  completion: ((Result<PubNubMessageAction, Error>) -> Void)?)
ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
channelStringYesThe name of the channel
typeStringYesThe Message Action's type
valueStringYesThe Message Action's value
messageTimetokenTimetokenYesThe publish timetoken of a parent message.
customRequestConfigurationOptionalRequestConfiguration()An object that allows for per-request customization of PubNub Configuration or Network Session
completion((Result<PubNubMessageAction, Error>) -> Void)?OptionalnilThe async Result of the method call

Completion Handler Result​

Success​

The PubNubMessageAction that was added.

public protocol PubNubMessageAction {
  /// The type of action
  var actionType: String { get }

  /// The value that corresponds to the type
  var actionValue: String { get }

  /// The `Timetoken` for this specific action
  var actionTimetoken: Timetoken { get }

  /// The `Timetoken` for the message this action relates to
  var messageTimetoken: Timetoken { get }

  /// The publisher of the message action
  var publisher: String { get }
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Failure​

An Error describing the failure.

Basic Usage​

pubnub.addMessageAction(
  channel: "my_channel",
  type: "reaction",
  value: "smiley_face",
  messageTimetoken: 15_610_547_826_969_050
) { result in
  switch result {
  case let .success(messageAction):
    print("Action type \(action.actionType) added at \(action.actionTimetoken) with value \(action.actionValue)")
    print("`\(action.publisher)` added action onto message \(action.messageTimetoken) on `\(action.channel)`")
  case let .failure(error):
    print("Error from failed response: \(error.localizedDescription)")
  }
})

Remove Message Action​

Requires Message Persistence add-on

This method requires that the Message Persistence add-on is enabled for your key in the Admin Portal. Read the support page on enabling add-on features on your keys.

Description​

Remove a previously added action on a published message.

Method(s)​

To Remove a Message Action you can use the following method(s) in the Swift SDK:

removeMessageActions(  channel: String,  message timetoken: Timetoken,  action actionTimetoken: Timetoken,  custom requestConfig: RequestConfiguration = RequestConfiguration(),  completion: ((Result<(channel: String, message: Timetoken, action: Timetoken), Error>) -> Void)?)
ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
channelStringYesThe name of the channel.
messageTimetokenYesThe publish timetoken of a parent message.
actionTimetokenYesThe action timetoken of a message action to be removed.
customRequestConfigurationOptionalRequestConfiguration()An object that allows for per-request customization of PubNub Configuration or Network Session
completion((Result<(channel: String, message: Timetoken, action: Timetoken), Error>) -> Void)?OptionalnilThe async Result of the method call

Completion Handler Result​

Success​

A Tuple containing the channel, message Timetoken, and action Timetoken of the action that was removed.

Failure​

An Error describing the failure.

Basic Usage​

pubnub.removeMessageActions(
  channel: "my_channel",
  message: 15_610_547_826_969_050,
  action: 15_610_547_826_970_050
) { result in
  switch result {
  case let .success(response):
    print("Action published at \(response.action) was removed from message \(response.message) on channel \(response.channel)")
  case let .failure(error):
    print("Error from failed response: \(error.localizedDescription)")
  }
})

Get Message Actions​

Requires Message Persistence add-on

This method requires that the Message Persistence add-on is enabled for your key in the Admin Portal. Read the support page on enabling add-on features on your keys.

Description​

Get a list of message actions in a channel. Returns a list of actions sorted by the action's timetoken in ascending order.

Truncated response

Number of message actions in the response may be truncated when internal limits are hit. If the response is truncated, a more property will be returned with additional parameters. Send iterative calls to storage adjusting the parameters to fetch more message actions.

Method(s)​

To Get Message Actions you can use the following method(s) in the Swift SDK:

fetchMessageActions(  channel: String,  page: PubNubBoundedPage? = PubNubBoundedPageBase(),  custom requestConfig: RequestConfiguration = RequestConfiguration(),  completion: ((Result<(actions: [PubNubMessageAction], next: PubNubBoundedPage?), Error>) -> Void)?)
ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
channelStringYesThe name of the channel.
pagePubNubBoundedPage?OptionalPubNubBoundedPageBase()The paging object used for pagination
customRequestConfigurationOptionalRequestConfiguration()An object that allows for per-request customization of PubNub Configuration or Network Session
completion((Result<(channel: String, message: Timetoken, action: Timetoken), Error>) -> Void)?OptionalnilThe async Result of the method call

Completion Handler Result​

Success​

An Array of PubNubMessageAction for the request channel, and the next request PubNubBoundedPage (if one exists).

public protocol PubNubMessageAction {
  /// The type of action
  var actionType: String { get }

  /// The value that corresponds to the type
  var actionValue: String { get }

  /// The `Timetoken` for this specific action
  var actionTimetoken: Timetoken { get }

  /// The `Timetoken` for the message this action relates to
  var messageTimetoken: Timetoken { get }

  /// The publisher of the message action
  var publisher: String { get }
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public protocol PubNubBoundedPage {
  /// The start value for the next set of remote data
  var start: Timetoken? { get }

  /// The bounded end value that will be eventually fetched to
  var end: Timetoken? { get }

  /// The previous limiting value (if any)
  var limit: Int? { get }
}

Failure​

An Error describing the failure.

Basic Usage​

pubnub.fetchMessageActions(
  channel: String,
) { result in
  switch result {
  case let .success(response):
    print("The actions for the channel \(response.actions)")
    if let nextPage = response.next {
      print("The next page used for pagination: \(nextPage)")
    }
  case let .failure(error):
    print("Error from failed response: \(error.localizedDescription)")
  }
})
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