Swift Native Message Actions API Reference for Realtime Apps

Note

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 PubNub Storage independently or when they fetch original messages.

Add Message Action

Requires Storage & Playback add-on Requires that the Storage & Playback add-on is enabled for your key. See this page on enabling add-on features on your keys:
https://support.pubnub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051974791-How-do-I-enable-add-on-features-for-my-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)?)

Parameter	Type	Required	Defaults	Description
`channel`	String	Yes		The name of the channel
`type`	String	Yes		The Message Action's type
`value`	String	Yes		The Message Action's value
`messageTimetoken`	Timetoken	Yes		The publish timetoken of a parent message.
`custom`	RequestConfiguration	Optional	`RequestConfiguration()`	An object that allows for per-request customization of PubNub Configuration or Network Session
`completion`	((Result<PubNubMessageAction, Error>) -> Void)?	Optional	`nil`	The 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 }

  /// The channel the action (and message) were sent on
  var channel: String { get }
}

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

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)?)

Parameter	Type	Required	Defaults	Description
`channel`	String	Yes		The name of the channel.
`message`	Timetoken	Yes		The publish timetoken of a parent message.
`action`	Timetoken	Yes		The action timetoken of a message action to be removed.
`custom`	RequestConfiguration	Optional	`RequestConfiguration()`	An object that allows for per-request customization of PubNub Configuration or Network Session
`completion`	((Result<(channel: String, message: Timetoken, action: Timetoken), Error>) -> Void)?	Optional	`nil`	The 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

Description

Get a list of message actions in a channel. Returns a list of actions in the response.

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)?)

Parameter	Type	Required	Defaults	Description
`channel`	String	Yes		The name of the channel.
`page`	PubNubBoundedPage?	Optional	`PubNubBoundedPageBase()`	The paging object used for pagination
`custom`	RequestConfiguration	Optional	`RequestConfiguration()`	An object that allows for per-request customization of PubNub Configuration or Network Session
`completion`	((Result<(channel: String, message: Timetoken, action: Timetoken), Error>) -> Void)?	Optional	`nil`	The 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 }

  /// The channel the action (and message) were sent on
  var channel: String { get }
}

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)")
  }
})