Create a Member

In this code snippet you learn how to create a Member. A Member can be thought of as a User who has been invited to, joined, or left a 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.
`USER_ID`	The unique ID of the User.

Prerequisites

You will need to use an existing Application that contains a Conversation in order to be able to create a Member. 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 create-member.sh:

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

bash create-member.sh

Prerequisites

Create a file named create-member.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 create-member.js:


const run = async () => {
  const member = vonage.conversations.createMember(
    CONV_ID,
    {
      user: {
        id: CONV_USER_ID,
      },
      state: CONV_MEMBER_STATE,
      channel: {
        type:'app',
      },
    },
  );
  console.log(member);

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Run your code

Save this file to your machine and run it:

node create-member.js

Prerequisites

Add the following to build.gradle:

Create a file named CreateMember 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 CreateMember file:

var member = client.getConversationsClient().createMember(
        CONV_ID, Member.builder()
                .channelType(ChannelType.APP)
                .state(CONV_MEMBER_STATE)
                .user(USER_ID)
                .build()
);
System.out.println(member);

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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:

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

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