OwnCapabilitiesContext

OwnCapabilitiesContext is provided by Channel component. It provides the capabilities of the current user on current channel. To know more about capabilities, please take a look at following documentation: /chat/docs/javascript/channel_capabilities/

If you are not familiar with React Context API, please read about it on React docs.

Basic Usage

OwnCapabilitiesContext can be consumed by any of the child component of Channel component as following:

import { useContext } from 'react';
import { OwnCapabilitiesContext } from 'stream-chat-react-native';

const { uploadFile, updateAnyMessage, deleteAnyMessage } = useContext(OwnCapabilitiesContext);

Alternatively, you can also use useOwnCapabilitiesContext hook provided by library to consume OwnCapabilitiesContext.

import { useOwnCapabilitiesContext } from 'stream-chat-react-native';

const { uploadFile, updateAnyMessage, deleteAnyMessage } = useOwnCapabilitiesContext();

Value

banChannelMembers

Ability to ban/block channel members.

deleteAnyMessage

Ability to delete any message from the channel.

deleteOwnMessage

Ability to delete own messages from the channel.

flagMessage

Ability to flag a message.

pinMessage

Ability to pin a message.

quoteMessage

Ability to quote a message.

readEvents

Ability to receive read events.

sendLinks

Ability to attach links to messages.

sendMessage

Ability to send a message.

sendReaction

Ability to send reactions.

sendReply

Ability to reply to a message.

sendTypingEvents

Ability to send typing events.

updateAnyMessage

Ability to update any message in the channel.

updateOwnMessage

Ability to update own messages in the channel.

uploadFile

Ability to upload message attachments.

sendPoll

Ability to send polls as messages.

queryPollVotes

Ability to query for the votes of polls.

castPollVote

Ability to cast a vote on polls.