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Introduction

The meeting chat object is stored in dyteClient.chat, which has methods for sending and receiving messages. There are 3 types of messages that can be sent in chat - text, images, and files.

The dyteClient.chat.messages array contains all the messages that have been sent in the chat. This is an array of objects, where each object is of type DyteChatMessage.

The DyteChatMessage class has the following properties:

  • userId : UserID of the sender.
  • displayName : Display name of the sender.
  • read : Boolean whether the message is read or not.
  • pluginId : Plugin ID of the message.
  • time : Time at which the message was sent. It returns a String in milliseconds since epoch format.
  • type : DyteMessageType for type of message being sent (whether DyteMessageType.text, DyteMessageType.image or DyteMessageType.file).

There are 3 message classes that extends DyteChatMessage, and each has some extra property in addition to DyteChatMessage properties:

  • DyteTextMessage
  • DyteImageMessage
  • DyteFileMessage

DyteTextMessage:​

  • message: Text message sent.

DyteImageMessage:​

  • link: URL of the image sent.

DyteFileMessage:​

  • name: Name of the file to be sent.
  • link: URL of the file sent.
  • size: Size of the file in bytes.