Get a Conversation

In this code snippet you learn how to get a specified Conversation.

Example

Ensure the following variables are set to your required values using any convenient method:

Key	Description
`CONVERSATION_ID`	The ID of the Conversation to be retrieved.

Prerequisites

You will need to use an existing Application that contains Conversations in order to receive some results here. See the Create Conversation code snippet for information on how to create an Application and some sample Conversations.

Write the code

Add the following to get-conversation.sh:

curl "https://api.nexmo.com/v1/conversations/$CONV_ID" \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$JWT\
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

bash get-conversation.sh

Prerequisites

npm install @vonage/server-sdk

Create a file named get-conversation.js and add the following code:

const { Vonage } = require('@vonage/server-sdk');

const vonage = new Vonage({
  applicationId: VONAGE_APPLICATION_ID,
  privateKey: VONAGE_PRIVATE_KEY,
});

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Write the code

Add the following to get-conversation.js:

vonage.conversations.getConversation(CONV_ID)
  .then((conversation) => console.log(conversation))
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

node get-conversation.js

Prerequisites

Add the following to build.gradle:

implementation 'com.vonage:server-sdk:9.3.1'

Create a file named GetConversation and add the following code to the main method:

VonageClient client = VonageClient.builder()
        .applicationId(VONAGE_APPLICATION_ID)
        .privateKeyPath(VONAGE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH)
        .build();

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Write the code

Add the following to the main method of the GetConversation file:

var conversation = client.getConversationsClient().getConversation(CONV_ID);
System.out.println(conversation);

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Run your code

We can use the application plugin for Gradle to simplify the running of our application. Update your build.gradle with the following:

apply plugin: 'application'
mainClassName = project.hasProperty('main') ? project.getProperty('main') : ''

Run the following gradle command to execute your application, replacing com.vonage.quickstart.conversation with the package containing GetConversation:

gradle run -Pmain=com.vonage.quickstart.conversation.GetConversation

Prerequisites

Install-Package Vonage

Create a file named GetConversation.cs and add the following code:

using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Vonage;
using Vonage.Conversations.GetConversation;
using Vonage.Request;

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Add the following to GetConversation.cs:

var credentials = Credentials.FromAppIdAndPrivateKeyPath(VONAGE_APPLICATION_ID, VONAGE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH);
var client = new VonageClient(credentials);

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Write the code

Add the following to GetConversation.cs:

var response = await client.ConversationsClient.GetConversationAsync(GetConversationRequest.Parse(CONV_ID));

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Prerequisites

composer require vonage/client

Create a file named get-conversation.php and add the following code:

use Vonage\Conversation\ConversationObjects\CreateConversationRequest;

require_once __DIR__ . '../../config.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '../../vendor/autoload.php';

$keypair = new \Vonage\Client\Credentials\Keypair(
    file_get_contents(VONAGE_APPLICATION_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH),
    VONAGE_APPLICATION_ID
);

$client = new \Vonage\Client($keypair);

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Write the code

Add the following to get-conversation.php:

$conversation = $client->conversation()->getConversationById(CONVERSATION_ID);

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

php get-conversation.php

Try it out

When you run the code you get the specified Conversation.