If you create a chat room, the chat room is open and accessible by default. All participants can join the chat room. To prevent all participants from joining the chat room, call the specified RESTful API for closing a chat room. You can also query the chat room in service by calling the specified API.

Open or close a chat room

After creating a chat room, you can close the chat room by setting the valid parameter to false. You can also open a closed chat room by setting the valid parameter to true.

When you create a chat room, you can set a timer to close it.

URL

POST https://api.netease.im/nimserver/chatroom/toggleCloseStat.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
operator	String	Yes	The operator account. Only the creator can perform the operation.
valid	Boolean	Yes	false: close the chat room, true: open the chat room.
delayClosePolicy	Integer	No	Timer option. 0: no timer, 1: set a timer to close the chat room regardless of whether participants exist in the chat room, 2: set a timer to close the chat room when no participants exist in the chat room
delaySeconds	Long	No	The timer to close the chat room. If you set delayClosePolicy=1 or 2 without a specific period of time, the default value (7*24*3600s) is applied

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
code	Integer	Status code
roomid	Long	Chat room ID
valid	Boolean	false: close a chat room, true: open a chat room
announcement	String	Announcement in a chat room
name	String	The name of a chat room
broadcasturl	String	URL for live streaming
ext	String	Extension field
queuelevel	Integer	Queue management permission. 0: All participants have the permission to change a queue, 1: Only hosts and administrators have the permission to change a queue
muted	Boolean	Whether the chat room is all muted. Only administrators and creators can speak if a chat room is all muted. false: unmuted, true: muted
creator	String	ID of the creator
delayInfo	String	Timer info
delayCloseEnable	Boolean	Whether a timer is enabled, true: enabled, false: disabled
delayClosePolicy	Integer	Method to close a chat room. 0: no timer, 1: close a chat room when the timer ends, 2: close a chat room if no participants exist in the chat room
delaySeconds	Long	Timer period. The maximum period (7*24*3600s)
status	Integer	Current status, 1: The task starts in the initial state, 2: waiting state, 3: task completion state, 4: task canceled< /td>
startTime	Long	Timestamp of the start time

Example

cURL request example

curl -X POST -i 'https://api.netease.im/nimserver/chatroom/toggleCloseStat.action' -H "Nonce: 12345" -H "CheckSum: bbecaa4b278bc74508f1d359b42d84e0ae38b082" -H "AppKey: 2bd025c577313e81b2bdb2d2dcefcadb" -H "CurTime: 1666597407" -d 'roomid=1600849147&operator=test100&valid=true&delayClosePolicy=1&delaySeconds=60'

Example success response

"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
{
  "code": 200,
  "chatroom": {
    "valid": true,
    "ext": "",
    "creator": "test100",
    "name": "test1-chatroom",
    "muted": false,
    "announcement": null,
    "broadcasturl": "xxxxxx",
    "roomid": 1600849147,
    "queuelevel": 0,
    "delayInfo": {
      "delaySeconds": 60,
      "delayCloseEnable": true,
      "startTime": 1666597407137,
      "delayClosePolicy": 1,
      "status": 2
    }
  }
}

Example error response

"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
{
    "code": 414, 
    "desc": "owner not registered" 
}

Status codes

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

Status code	Description	Recommendation
200	Success	-
414	Parameter error	Check the format and restrictions of arguments based on the error message
403	Forbidden operation	The app does not have the permission to open or close the chat room
419	The number of chat rooms exceeds the upper limit	-
404	Chat room does not exist	Check the chat room ID
417	Repeated operation	The closed chat room cannot be closed again, and the opened chat room cannot be opened again
13002	The chat room is invalid	The status of the chat room is abnormal. Check its status

Query chat rooms in service

Query active chat rooms.

URL

POST https://api.netease.im/nimserver/chatroom/queryUserRoomIds.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
creator	String	Yes	The accid of the creator

Example

cURL request example

curl -X POST  -H 'appkey: fe416640c8e8a72734219e1847ad2547'  -H 'cache-control: no-cache'  -H 'checksum: 18f5435a7bf287af9150ad608797f75265495034'  -H 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'   -H 'curtime: 1508481877'   -H 'nonce: 12345' -d 'creator=xiaoming01' "https://api.netease.im/nimserver/chatroom/queryUserRoomIds.action"

Example success response

"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
{
  "code": 200,
  "desc":{
    "roomids": [
        "1015",
        "2016",
        "2017",
        "5062",
        "23037398"
    ]
    }
}

Status code

The status code is returned in the response body. For more information, see Status codes.