Interface IMessagingService

IMessagingService allows users to send a message to other users.

Namespace: Unity.Services.Friends

Assembly: Unity.Services.Friends.dll

Syntax

public interface IMessagingService

Methods

MessageAsync<T>(string, T)

Sends a message from the current user to the target user. To ease deserialization of sent message on the receiving client, the message must have an empty constructor. The maximum size of the message payload is 10 kilobytes.

Declaration

Task MessageAsync<T>(string targetUserId, T message) where T : new()

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	targetUserId	The ID of the user to target with the message. Must be friends with the current user.
T	message	The message to send. It must be serializable (and deserializable) as JSON

Returns

Type	Description
Task

Type Parameters

Name	Description
T

Exceptions

Type	Condition
InvalidOperationException	Represents an error that occurs when the service has not been initialized.
ArgumentException	Represents an error that occur when an argument is incorrectly set up.
FriendsServiceException	An exception containing the HttpClientResponse with headers, response code, and string of error.