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8x8 Chat API

Send and receive public Chat Room messages

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Operations 2

POST /api/chat/v1/messages/ Send a message to a public chat room. #

GET /api/chat/v1/messages Fetches messages for a room. Defaults to `CHAPI sandbox` room. #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: 8x8 Work Chat API
  version: '0.1'
  title: Chapi Chat API
servers:
- url: //api.8x8.com/chat
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: chat
  description: Send and receive public Chat Room messages
paths:
  /api/chat/v1/messages/:
    post:
      tags:
      - chat
      summary: Send a message to a public chat room.
      description: This will send a message to a room. If the room does not exist Chapi will create the room, then send the message to it. This endpoint is unable to send messages if the room is private.
      operationId: sendmessageusingpost
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SendMessageVO'
        description: message
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            '*/*':
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SendMessageResponseVO'
            application/json:
              examples:
                response:
                  value:
                    parsed: Hello World!
        '201':
          description: Created
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '403':
          description: Forbidden
        '404':
          description: Not Found
      deprecated: false
  /api/chat/v1/messages:
    get:
      tags:
      - chat
      summary: Fetches messages for a room. Defaults to `CHAPI sandbox` room.
      description: Fetches a list of messages from the room.
      operationId: getmessagesusingget_1
      parameters:
      - name: pageSize
        in: query
        description: pageSize
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int32
          default: 30
      - name: room
        in: query
        description: room
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: ts
        in: query
        description: ts
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          default: 0
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            '*/*':
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageVO'
            application/json:
              examples:
                response:
                  value:
                    authorUser:
                      avatarUrl: https://roombot.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/chapi.png
                      email: developer@8x8.com
                      id: 94y4Kq619DeqY30EiGVkdxlU2CpNYJ0E4aAguR46mvc
                      name: Chapi
                    messageParsed: Hello world
                    id: RqQ_b5wiFutWmGlzZCrsSdsmQhdZV6iPu_P5CrPSoDs
                    timestamp: 1594918006814947
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
        '403':
          description: Forbidden
        '404':
          description: Not Found
      deprecated: false
components:
  schemas:
    SendMessageVO:
      type: object
      properties:
        messageRaw:
          type: string
        room:
          type: string
      title: SendMessageVO
    SendMessageResponseVO:
      type: object
      properties:
        parsed:
          type: string
      title: SendMessageResponseVO
    MessageVO:
      type: object
      properties:
        authorUser:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatUserVO'
        id:
          type: string
        parsed:
          type: string
        timestamp:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      title: MessageVO
      description: The Message Object
    ChatUserVO:
      type: object
      properties:
        avatarUrl:
          type: string
        email:
          type: string
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
      title: ChatUserVO
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
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