MessageService
The message service contains configuration options related to displaying the message content
Type parameters
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
T | extends DefaultStreamChatGenerics = DefaultStreamChatGenerics |
Properties
customLinkRenderer
• Optional customLinkRenderer: (url: string) => string
You can provide a custom method to display links
Type declaration
▸ (url): string
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
url | string | the url the link should refer to |
Returns
string
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message.service.ts:28
displayAs
• displayAs: "html" | "text" = 'text'
Decides if the message content should be formatted as text or HTML
If you display messages as text the following parts are still be displayed as HTML:
- user mentions -> you can customize this with your own template using the
customTemplatesService.mentionTemplate$ - links -> you can customize this by providing you own
customLinkRenderermethod
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message.service.ts:21
filterCustomAttachment
• Optional filterCustomAttachment: (attachment: Attachment\<T>) => boolean
The SDK supports the following attachment types: image, file, giphy, video and voiceRecording attachments.
All other types are treated as custom attachments, however it's possible to override this logic, and provide a custom filtering method which can be used to treat some built-in attachments as custom.
Provide a method which retruns true if an attachment should be considered as custom.
Type declaration
▸ (attachment): boolean
Parameters
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
attachment | Attachment\<T> |
Returns
boolean
Defined in
projects/stream-chat-angular/src/lib/message.service.ts:36
Methods
isCustomAttachment
▸ isCustomAttachment(attachment): boolean
Tells if an attachment is custom (you need to provide your own template to display them) or built-in (the SDK supports it out-of-the-box)
Parameters
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
attachment | Attachment\<T> |
Returns
boolean
true if the attachment is custom