Send a directional message in a chat room

Overview

Users can send messages to designated members in the chat room. Message types, such as text, image, audio, video, location, files, alert, and custom messages are supported.

• This API can send or resend a directed messages by setting resendFlag. For details, see the description of this parameter in Request Parameters below.
• Saving directional messages in message history is not supported.

Request URI

POST https://api.netease.im/nimserver/chatroom/sendMsgToSomeone.action HTTP/1.1
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8

Request parameters

• For information about how to set the header in a POST request, see API Call methods.

• The settings of the body in a POST request:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
roomid	Long	Yes	Chat room ID
msgId	String	Yes	message ID, using random strings such as uuid, messages with the same msgId will be deduplicated by the client.< /td>
attach	String	No	Message body as the body field in message format example, up to 4,069 characters long.
fromAccid	String	Yes	user account sending the message, accid
toAccids	String	Yes	List of recipient accids, JSONArray, up to 100 accounts.
msgType	Integer	Yes	Message types: 0: Text, 1: image, 2: audio, 3: video, 4: location, 6: file, 10: alert, 100: Custom messageFor applications that are not integrated to GuardEase moderation service, custom messages will not be forwarded for review
subType	Integer	No	Custom message subtype, a value greater than 0.
resendFlag	Integer	No	Flage for resending a message, 0: Non-resent message, 1: Resent message. If a user resends a message, the deduplication logic will be applied based on `msgId`.
route	Integer	No	Whether the message is synced using webhooks 0: No; 1: Yes (default)< /td>
ext	String	No	extension field for messages, JSON, up to 4096 characters long.
useYidun	Integer	No	Whether a message (including custom messages) uses GuardEase moderation service. Set the value to 0. Any other value indicates that the value is unspecified. 0: indicates that the message is not audited by the GuardEase moderation service when the moderation service is activated. If you do not specify this field, the message will be forwarded to GuardEase moderation service for review by default when the service is activated.
yidunAntiCheating	String	No	The parameter for anti-cheating detection transferred in pass-through mode to GuardEase, JSON, with a maximum length of 1024 characters, (For details, please see GuardEase anti-spam exclusive field)
yidunAntiSpamExt	String	No	The parameter for anti-spam enhanced transferred in pass-through mode to GuardEase, JSON, with a maximum length of 1024 characters, (for details, see GuardEase moderation service custom extension field)
bid	String	No	Custom business ID of GuardEase moderation service. Custom moderation allows you to review the content of a single message in addition to the default moderation service. To configure custom moderation rules, contact our technical support using WhatsApp or online support for help.
antispam	Boolean	No	For applications that have activated GuardEase moderation service, whether the message are reviewed by GuardEase (antispamCustom), default value:false Only valid for custom messages (message type: 100)
antispamCustom	String	No	Custom moderation rules. Valid when the `antispam` parameter is set to `true`, JSON, length limit is the same as the body field. The maximum length is 5000 characters, the required antispamCustom format is as follows: {"type":1,"data":"custom content"} Field description: 1. type: 1: text; 2: image; 3: video 2. data: Text or image URL
env	String	No	The environment name specified in the CommsEase console sync webhooks as shown in the figure below. A maximum of 32 characters are allowed.

Response fields

Parameter	Type	Description
code	Integer	Response status code
desc	String	Detailed description of the sent message.

desc representation

Parameter	Type	Description
time	Long	Timestamp of a sent message in milliseconds.
fromAvator	String	Avatar of the message sender.
msgid_client	Long	Client message ID
fromClientType	String	Type of the client sending a message.
roomId	Long	Chat room ID
fromAccount	String	User account sending a message. accid
fromNick	String	Nickname of the sender.
attach	String	Message body
type	Integer	Message type
ext	String	Extension field
highPriorityFlag	Integer	High priority message flag. Normal messages have no such flag.

Example

Example request (cURL)

curl -X POST -H "CheckSum: 51eb13ea**1c65c7866c366" -H 'AppKey: fe416640c***e1847ad2547' -H "Nonce: 1" -H "CurTime: 1451207708" -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -d 'roomid=36&fromAccid=zhangsan&msgType=0&attach=This+is+test+msg&msgId=c9e6c306-804f-4ec3-b8f0-573778829419&toAccids=["acc1","acc2"]' 'https://api.netease.im/nimserver/chatroom/sendMsgToSomeone.action'

Example success response

"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
{
"code":200,
"desc":{
  "time": "1456396333115",
  "fromAvator": "http://b12026.nos.netease.com/MTAxMTAxMA==/bmltYV84NDU4OF8xNDU1ODczMjA2NzUwX2QzNjkxMjI2LWY2NmQtNDQ3Ni0E2LTg4NGE4MDNmOGIwMQ==",
  "msgid_client": "111139",
  "fromClientType": "REST",
  "attach": "This is the message",
  "roomId": "36",
  "fromAccount": "zhansan",
  "fromNick": "Zhangsan",
  "type": "0",
  "ext": ""
}
}

Example error response

"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
{
    "code":414
    "desc":"msgContents size exceeded" //Message body exceeded the size limit.
}

Status codes

The following status codes are related to responses of this API. For the complete error codes, see Status codes.

Code	Description	Recommendation
200	Success	-
414	Parameter error	Check the format and restrictions of arguments based on the error message
403	Illegal operation	Exceptions, such as invalid chat room name, hit moderation rules or without the chat room permission.
419	Limit of chat rooms exceeded.	-
13009	The scheduled closing of chat rooms is disabled	Enable the chat room scheduled closing function