Create a Group

Create a Group

In other words, as a logged-in user, how do I create a public, private or password-protected group?

You can create a group using createGroup() method. This method takes a Group object as a parameter that takes all the information related to the group. So, in order to create a group, you will have to create an object of the group and assign all the values to the group.

To create a group, you can use either of the below two initializers:

1. new Group(String GUID, String name, String groupType, String password)
2. new Group(String GUID, String name, String groupType, String password, String icon, String description)

The groupType needs to be either of the below 3 values:

1.CometChatConstants.GROUP_TYPE_PUBLIC (public) 2.CometChatConstants.GROUP_TYPE_PASSWORD (password) 3.CometChatConstants.GROUP_TYPE_PRIVATE (private)

Swift

1. let GroupTobeCreated = Group(GUID: String, name: String, groupType: CometChatConstants.groupType, password: String?)

2. let GroupTobeCreated = Group(GUID: String, name: String, groupType: CometChatConstants.groupType, password: String?, icon: String, description: String)

Objective C

1. Group *GroupTobeCreated = [[Group alloc]initWithGuid:(NSString * _Nonnull) name:(NSString * _Nonnull) groupType:(enum groupType) password:(NSString * _Nullable)];

2. Group *GroupTobeCreated = [[Group alloc]initWithGuid:(NSString * _Nonnull) name:(NSString * _Nonnull) groupType:(enum groupType) password:(NSString * _Nullable) icon:(NSString * _Nonnull) description:(NSString * _Nonnull)];

Swift

let guid = "cometchat-guid-11";
let groupName = "TestGroup1";
let password = ""; //mandatory in case of password protected group type

let group = Group(guid: guid, name: groupName, groupType: .private, password: password);

CometChat.createGroup(group: group, onSuccess: { (group) in

  print("Group created successfully. " + group.stringValue())

}) { (error) in

  print("Group creation failed with error:" + error!.errorDescription);
}

Objective C

NSString *guid = @"cometchat-guid-101";
NSString *name = @"TestGroup1";
NSString *password = nil ; // mandatory in case of password protected group type

Group *group = [[Group alloc]initWithGuid:guid name:name groupType:groupTypePublic password:password];

[CometChat createGroupWithGroup:group onSuccess:^(Group * group) {

    NSLog(@"Group created successfully. %@",[group stringValue]);

} onError:^(CometChatException * error) {

    NSLog(@"Group creation failed with error: %@",[error errorDescription]);
}];

The createGroup() method takes the following parameters:

Parameter	Description
group	An instance of Group class

After the successful creation of the group, you will receive an instance of `Group`` class which contains all the information about the particular group.

Warning

GUID can be alphanumeric with underscore and hyphen. Spaces, punctuation and other special characters are not allowed.

Add members while creating a group

You can create a group and add members at the same time using the createGroupWithMembers() method. This method takes the Group Object, Array of Group Member Object to be added & Array of UIDs to be banned.

To create an object of Group class, you can use either of the below two constructors:

1. new Group(String GUID, String name, String groupType, String password)
2. new Group(String GUID, String name, String groupType, String password, String icon, String description)

The groupType needs to be either of the below 3 values:

1. CometChat.GROUP_TYPE.PUBLIC
2. CometChat.GROUP_TYPE.PASSWORD
3. CometChat.GROUP_TYPE.PRIVATE

To create an object of Group Member class, you can use the below constructor:

• new CometChat.GroupMember(String UID, String scope)

Swift

let group = Group(guid: "cometchat-uid-group1" , name: "Hello Group", groupType: .public, password: nil)
let members = [GroupMember(UID: "cometchat-uid-4", groupMemberScope: .participant)]
let banMembers = ["cometchat-uid-2"]

CometChat.createGroupWithMembers(group: group, members: members, banMembers: banMembers, onSuccess: {
	dict in
		print("Group created successfully",dict)
	}, onError: { (error) in
    print("Some error occured while creating group \(String(describing: error?.errorDescription))")
  }
)

Group Class

Field	Editable	Information
guid	Needs to be specified at group creation. Cannot be edited later	A unique identifier for a group
name	Yes	Name of the group
type	No	Type of the group: Can be 1. Public 2. Password 3. Private
password	No	Password for the group in case the group is of type password.
icon	Yes	An URL to group icon
description	Yes	Description about the group
owner	Yes	UID of the owner of the group.
metadata	Yes	Additional data for the group as Dictionary
createdAt	No	The Unix timestamp of the time the group was created
updatedAt	No	The Unix timestamp of the time the group was last updated
hasJoined	No	A boolean to determine if the logged-in user is a member of the group.
joinedAt	No	The Unix timestamp of the time the logged-in user joined the group.
scope	Yes	Scope of the logged in user. Can be: 1. Admin 2. Moderator 3. Participant
membersCount	No	The number of members in the groups
tags	Yes	A list of tags to identify specific groups.