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: https://getstream.io/chat/docs/javascript/channel_capabilities/?language=javascript

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.

Type
boolean

deleteAnyMessage

Ability to delete any message from the channel.

Type
boolean

deleteOwnMessage

Ability to delete own messages from the channel.

Type
boolean

flagMessage

Ability to flag a message.

Type
boolean

pinMessage

Ability to pin a message.

Type
boolean

quoteMessage

Ability to quote a message.

Type
boolean

readEvents

Ability to receive read events.

Type
boolean

sendLinks

Ability to attach links to messages.

Type
boolean

sendMessage

Ability to send a message.

Type
boolean

sendReaction

Ability to send reactions.

Type
boolean

sendReply

Ability to reply to a message.

Type
boolean

sendTypingEvents

Ability to send typing events.

Type
boolean

updateAnyMessage

Ability to update any message in the channel.

Type
boolean

updateOwnMessage

Ability to update own messages in the channel.

Type
boolean

uploadFile

Ability to upload message attachments.

Type
boolean