Send Chat Data: React Native SDK – Video API

INFO! Android Toolkit 1.4.2 support an advance version of Public & Private Messaging API. Therefore, you are discouraged to use this Stream based Messaging. It will be deprecated in future version.

You may implement basic text-chat communication using Video API. The Text-Data is carried on a separate data track in a published Stream and received by all subscribers of the stream.

• Notes to send message:
  • You must initiate your stream with data track enabled using the JSON Payload as {data: true}
  • You must publish your stream into the room before you can use the Enx.sendData() method.
• Notes to receive message:
  • You must subscribe to the remote stream
  • User Observer receiveData to receive any incoming message.

Method: Enx.sendData(localStreamId, messageObject)

Parameter:

• localStreamId – Local Stream ID on which the message to be sent
• messageObject– This object has following keys:
  • from: Sender Name
  • message: Message Body
  • timestamp: Time Stamp in UTC – when the message was originated

Callback: receiveData – To all participants in the room with messageObject

messageJSON: {
        message: "Test chat",
        from: "React-Native",
        timestamp: Date.now()
}


Enx.sendData(localStreamId, messageJSON);  // Send message

// Participants receive message
receiveData : event=>{
	/* event = 
	{	id : 12345, 
		msg : {
			from: "", message: "", 
			timestamp: 12345, type: "public"
		}
	} */
}

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