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How to use Quickblox chat rooms for 1:1 chat?

A chat room with only 2 users can be used for a 1:1 chat experience, but there are a few things that I could not clarify in Quickblox support info:

  • how to get a list of the 1:1 rooms where I am involved? If I create rooms with myUserID_opponentUserID@muc.chat.quickblox.com, how can I get a list of rooms where my User ID is in the name of the room? All I could find was a [[QBChat instance] requestAllRooms]; but this gets a list of all rooms. Then I would have to parse the names in the app. Is there a way to add a filter to this request?

  • how do I get the 1:1 chat rooms ordered by recently exchanged messages? I would like to get all the rooms where I am involved and order them from the most recent conversation to the most old conversation.

Maybe Custom Objects could come to the rescue?

  • register the name of the rooms I am involved in when they are created register the time I join my rooms

Any thoughts?

Solution

  • I suggest that:

    1) you should perform 

    [[QBChat instance] requestAllRooms]

    and in chat delegate method 

    chatDidReceiveListOfRooms:

    check all rooms by chat room property isJoined. Determined request like a "getChatRoomsForCurrentUser" or some filters I don't found.

    For 2) and 3) I think I should use Custom Objects, at this time I don't found any simple way how to do this.