Contact List
Learn how to create, update, manage, and add users to your contact list.
The Contact List API is rather straightforward. A user A sends a request to become "friends" with a user B. The user B accepts the friend request. And now the user A and B appear in each other roster.
This feature is also useful to get online/offline statuses of the users from the user's Contact List.
Visit our Key Concepts page to get an overall understanding of the most important QuickBlox concepts.
Before you begin
- Register a QuickBlox account. This is a matter of a few minutes and you will be able to use this account to build your apps.
- Configure QuickBlox SDK for your app. Check out our Setup page for more details.
- Create a user session to be able to use QuickBlox functionality. See our Authentication page to learn how to do it.
- Connect to the Chat server. See our Connection page to learn how to do it.
Add listener
To use a contact list, you have to obtain it and set all needed listeners.
QBRosterListener rosterListener = new QBRosterListener() {
@Override
public void entriesDeleted(Collection<Integer> userIds) {
}
@Override
public void entriesAdded(Collection<Integer> userIds) {
}
@Override
public void entriesUpdated(Collection<Integer> userIds) {
}
@Override
public void presenceChanged(QBPresence presence) {
}
};
QBSubscriptionListener subscriptionListener = new QBSubscriptionListener() {
@Override
public void subscriptionRequested(int userId) {
// subscription was requested by user with ID = userId
}
};
// you should do this after login (connect) to the Chat
QBRoster contactsRoster = QBChatService.getInstance().getRoster();
contactsRoster.setSubscriptionMode(QBRoster.SubscriptionMode.mutual);
contactsRoster.addSubscriptionListener(subscriptionListener);
contactsRoster.addRosterListener(rosterListener);
val rosterListener = object : QBRosterListener {
override fun entriesDeleted(collection: Collection<Int>?) {
}
override fun entriesAdded(collection: Collection<Int>?) {
}
override fun entriesUpdated(collection: Collection<Int>?) {
}
override fun presenceChanged(presence: QBPresence?) {
}
}
val subscriptionListener = QBSubscriptionListener { userId: Int -> {
// subscription was requested by user with ID = userId
}
}
// you should do this after login (connect) to the Chat
val contactsRoster = QBChatService.getInstance().roster
contactsRoster.subscriptionMode = QBRoster.SubscriptionMode.mutual
contactsRoster.addSubscriptionListener(subscriptionListener)
contactsRoster.addRosterListener(rosterListener)
The following table lists all supported events of the QBRosterListener.
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| entriesDeleted() | A contact list item is removed from the contact list. |
| entriesAdded() | A new contact list item is added to the contact list. |
| entriesUpdated() | A contact list item is updated. For example, a user's name can be updated. |
| presenceChanged() | A user presence is changed. Care should be taken when using the presence data delivered as part of this event. Specifically, when a user account is online with multiple devices, the UI should account for that. For example, say a user is online with their desktop computer and mobile phone. If the user logs out of the instant messaging client on their mobile phone, the user should not be shown in the contact list as offline since they're still available on another device. |
You should call
chatService.getRoster()only after successful connecting to Chat. To learn how to it, review this section.
QBRosterListeneris a listener that is fired any time a contact list is changed or the presence of a user in the contact list is changed (e.g. user becomes online/offline).
QBSubscriptionListeneris a listener that is calledsubscriptionRequestedwhen the current user has been requested for adding to the Contact List from any user.
Access contact list
The following function gives you access to all contact list items.
Collection<QBRosterEntry> entries = contactsRoster.getEntries();
val entries = contactsRoster.entries
A QBRosterEntry describes a user entity in your contact list. To get the Presence of a user, use getPresence(userID) method. Then, you can get a user's status.
QBPresence presence = contactsRoster.getPresence(user.getId());
if (presence == null) {
// no user in your contact list
return;
}
if (presence.getType() == QBPresence.Type.online) {
// user is online
} else {
// user is offline
}
val presence = contactsRoster.getPresence(user.id)
if (presence == null) {
// no user in your contact list
return
}
if (presence.type == QBPresence.Type.online) {
// user is online
} else {
// user is offline
}
Add user to your contact list
To add a user to the contact list, use the following snippet.
try {
contactsRoster.subscribe(user.getId());
} catch (SmackException.NotConnectedException exception) {
}
try {
contactsRoster.subscribe(user.id)
} catch (exception: SmackException.NotConnectedException) {
}
After that, the User you have just subscribed to, receives a callback subscriptionRequested in QBSubscriptionListener. This is a request to be added to the contact list.
// QBSubscriptionListener
// ...
@Override
public void subscriptionRequested(int userId) {
}
// QBSubscriptionListener()
// ...
@Override
public void subscriptionRequested(int userId) {
}
Maximum number of contacts is 300.
Confirm the contact request
To confirm the request, use contactsRoster.confirmSubscription() method.
try {
contactsRoster.confirmSubscription(user.getId());
} catch (SmackException.NotConnectedException | SmackException.NotLoggedInException | SmackException.NoResponseException | XMPPException exception) {
}
try {
contactsRoster.confirmSubscription(user.id)
} catch (exceptione: SmackException.NotConnectedException) {
} catch (exceptione: SmackException.NotLoggedInException) {
} catch (exceptione: SmackException.NoResponseException) {
} catch (exception: XMPPException) {
}
Reject the contact request
To reject the request, use the contactsRoster.reject() method.
try {
contactsRoster.reject(user.getId());
} catch (SmackException.NotConnectedException exception) {
}
try {
contactsRoster.reject(user.id)
} catch (exception: SmackException.NotConnectedException) {
}
Remove user from the contact list
To remove a previously added user from the contact list, use the following method.
try {
contactsRoster.unsubscribe(user.getId());
} catch (SmackException.NotConnectedException exception) {
}
try {
contactsRoster.unsubscribe(user.id)
} catch (exception: SmackException.NotConnectedException) {
}
Contact list updates
The above-specified RosterListener listener will give you all updates regarding contact list changes and users' status updates.
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