Chat

What's a video call without being able to send messages to each other too? 100ms supports chat for every video/audio room you create.

You can see an example of every type of message (of the types below) being sent and displayed in the advanced sample app.

Addressing messages

• Broadcast messages are sent to Everyone in the chat hmssdk.sendBroadcastMessage.

• Direct messages are sent to a specific person hmssdk.sendDirectMessage.

• Group messages are sent to everyone with a particular HMSRole. Such as all hosts or all teachers or all students hmsSdk.sendGroupMessage.

  • Learn more about roles and how to create them on the backend.

Sending Chat Messages

Sending Broadcast Messages

Want to let everyone in the chat know something? Call sendBroadcastMessage on the instance of HMSSDK to a send a broadcast.

The parameters are:

1. textMessage: The text of the message.
2. type: The type of the message, default is HMSMessageType.CHAT.
3. hmsMessageResultListener: An instance of HMSMessageResultListener.
   • onSuccess will be called when the server receives the request. The onSuccess contains a HMSMessage which has the updated serverReceiveTime a date containing the server timestamp.
   • onError will be called with an instane of HMSException detailing what went wrong.

 
hmssdk.sendBroadcastMessage(textMessage, HMSMessageType.CHAT,
    object : HMSMessageResultListener {
      override fun onError(error: HMSException) {
      }

      override fun onSuccess(hmsMessage: HMSMessage) {
      }
})

 
hmssdk.sendBroadcastMessage(textMessage, HMSMessageType.CHAT,
    new HMSMessageResultListener() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(@NonNull HMSMessage hmsMessage) {
            
        }

        @Override
        public void onError(@NonNull HMSException e) {

        }
    }
);

Sending Direct Messages

Got secrets to share? Send a message directly to a single person in the chat with a direct message. Call sendDirectMessage on an instance of HMSSDK.

The parameters are:

1. textMessage: The text of the message.
2. type: The type of the message, default is HMSMessageType.CHAT.
3. peerTo: The HMSPeer instance who should receive message.
4. hmsMessageResultListener: An instance of HMSMessageResultListener.
   • onSuccess will be called when the server receives the request. The onSuccess contains a HMSMessage which has the updated serverReceiveTime a date containing the server timestamp.
   • onError will be called with an instane of HMSException detailing what went wrong.

 
fun sendDirectMessage(textMessage : String, recipient : HMSPeer) {
    hmssdk.sendDirectMessage(textMessage, HMSMessageType.CHAT, recipient, 
        object : HMSMessageResultListener {
            override fun onError(error: HMSException) {
            }

            override fun onSuccess(hmsMessage: HMSMessage) {
            }
            })
}

 
    private void sendDirectMessage(String textMessage, HMSPeer recipient ) {
        hmsSdk.sendDirectMessage(textMessage, HMSMessageType.CHAT, recipient, 
            new HMSMessageResultListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onSuccess(@NonNull HMSMessage hmsMessage) {
                        
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onError(@NonNull HMSException e) {

                    }
        }); 
    }

Sending Group Messages

Need to call attention to all the hosts? All the teachers? All the developers? Call sendGroupMessage on an instance of HMSSDK.

The parameters are:

1. textMessage: The text of the message.
2. type: The type of the message, default is HMSMessageType.CHAT.
3. hmsRolesTo: The List<HMSRoles> of all roles which should receive the message.
4. hmsMessageResultListener: An instance of HMSMessageResultListener.
   • onSuccess will be called when the server receives the request. The onSuccess contains a HMSMessage which has the updated serverReceiveTime a date containing the server timestamp.
   • onError will be called with an instane of HMSException detailing what went wrong.

 

private fun sendGroupMessage(textMessage: String, recipients : List<HMSRole> ) {
    hmssdk.sendGroupMessage(message.message, HMSMessageType.CHAT, recipients, object : HMSMessageResultListener {
      override fun onError(error: HMSException) {
      }

      override fun onSuccess(hmsMessage: HMSMessage) {
      }

    })
  }

 

private void sendGroupMessage(String textMessage, List<HMSRole> recipients) {
    hmsSdk.sendGroupMessage(textMessage, HMSMessageType.CHAT, recipients, 
            new HMSMessageResultListener() {
                @Override
                public void onSuccess(@NonNull HMSMessage hmsMessage) {
                    
                }
    
                @Override
                public void onError(@NonNull HMSException e) {
    
                }
    });
}

Receiving Chat Messages

When you called hmsSdk.join(config, hmsUpdateListener) to join a room, the HMSUpdateListener implementation that was passed in had the callback fun onMessageReceived(message: HMSMessage).

This where you'll receive new messages as HMSMessage during the call. It contains:

 

data class HMSMessage internal constructor(
  val message: String,
  val type: String,
  val recipient: HMSMessageRecipient = HMSMessageRecipient(),
  var serverReceiveTime: Date,
  var sender: HMSPeer
)

• message: Content of the text message or the text description of the raw message.
• type: Type of message sent. Default value is HMSMessageType.CHAT.
• recipient: The intended recipient(s) of this message as a HMSMessageRecipient.
• serverReceiveTime: timestamp of when the messaging server receives this message. Update the time in your own messages when this comes back from the server in HMSUpdateListener.onMessageReceived for accurate ordering of your own messages.
• sender: The HMSPeer who is sending this message.

Identifying Senders:

The sender of a message is always contained in the sender field of HMSMessage. This lets you get the name and peer id for any message sender.

Message Body:

The body of the message is in message as a String.

Time:

The time the message was sent is contained in time as a Java Date.

Putting together a list of chat messages.

The UI is completely up to you to decide! You'll also need to hold onto all the received messages if you want to display history.

Identifying who the message was for

The HMSMessageRecipient contained in the recipient field of HMSMessage lets you know who the message was for.

The HMSMessageRecipient contains:

 
class HMSMessageRecipient internal constructor(
    var recipientPeer: HMSPeer? = null,
    var recipientRoles: List<HMSRole> = mutableListOf(),
    var recipientType: HMSMessageRecipientType : HMSMessageRecipientType
)

recipientPeer: Only contains a peer when a specific single peer is being direct messaged.

recipientRoles: Only contains values when a group message is being sent to many roles.

recipientType: Will be HMSMessageRecipientType.BROADCAST for a message being sent to everyone. If this is true, the other two fields will be null and empty respectively.

HMSMessageRecipientType.PEER will be set when it's a direct message.

HMSMessageRecipientType.ROLES will be set when it's a message to one or many roles.

A good way to map this to your own app is a class like Recipient below. You could choose to copy this file into your code for the mapping.

 

sealed class Recipient {
    
    object Everyone : Recipient() {
        override fun toString(): String = "Everyone"
    }
    
    data class Role(val role : HMSRole) : Recipient() {
        override fun toString(): String =
            role.name
    }
    
    data class Peer(val peer : HMSPeer) : Recipient() {
        override fun toString(): String = peer.name
    }

    companion object {
        fun toRecipient(message : HMSMessageRecipient) : Recipient =
            when(message.recipientType) {
                HMSMessageRecipientType.BROADCAST -> Everyone
                HMSMessageRecipientType.PEER -> Peer(message.recipientPeer!!)
                HMSMessageRecipientType.ROLES -> Role(message.recipientRoles.firstOrNull()!!)
        }
    }
}

So that if you need to convert the message to your own class you can set the recipient like:

 
override fun onMessageReceived(message: HMSMessage) {
    ChatMessage(
        message.sender.name,
        message.serverReceiveTime,
        message.message,
        false,
        recipient = Recipient.toRecipient(message.recipient)
    )
}