Messages

A Message represents an individual message that is sent to or received from Ably.

The event name, if provided. Type: String

The message payload, if provided.Type: String, StringBuffer, JSON Object

Metadata and/or ancillary payloads, if provided. The only currently valid payloads for extras are the push, ref and privileged objects.Type:

A Unique ID assigned by Ably to this message.Type: String

The client ID of the publisher of this message.Type: String

The connection ID of the publisher of this message.Type: String

Timestamp when the message was received by the Ably, as milliseconds since the epoch.Type: Integer

This will typically be empty as all messages received from Ably are automatically decoded client-side using this value. However, if the message encoding cannot be processed, this attribute will contain the remaining transformations not applied to the data payload.Type: String

Message.fromEncoded(Object encodedMsg, ChannelOptions channelOptions?) → Message

A static factory method to create a Message from a deserialized Message-like object encoded using Ably’s wire protocol.

Parameters

encodedMsg

a Message-like deserialized object.Type: Object

channelOptions

an optional ChannelOptions. If you have an encrypted channel, use this to allow the library can decrypt the data.Type: Object

Returns

A Message object

Message.fromEncodedArray(Object[] encodedMsgs, ChannelOptions channelOptions?) → Message[]

A static factory method to create an array of Messages from an array of deserialized Message-like object encoded using Ably’s wire protocol.

Parameters

encodedMsgs

an array of Message-like deserialized objects.Type: Array

channelOptions

an optional ChannelOptions. If you have an encrypted channel, use this to allow the library can decrypt the data.Type: Object

Returns

An Array of Message objects