Reply to a message in a channel

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new reply to a chatMessage in a specified channel.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) ChannelMessage.Send Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application Teamwork.Migrate.All Not available.

Note: Application permissions are only supported for migration. In the future, Microsoft may require you or your customers to pay additional fees based on the amount of data imported.

HTTP request

POST /teams/{team-id}/channels/{channel-id}/messages/{message-id}/replies

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization string Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of a message object. Only the body property is mandatory, other properties are optional.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code with the message that was created.

Examples

Example 1: Create a new reply to a chatMessage

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels/19:4b6bed8d24574f6a9e436813cb2617d8@thread.tacv2/messages/1590776551682/replies
Content-type: application/json

{
  "body": {
    "contentType": "html",
    "content": "Hello World"
  }
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5')/channels('19:4b6bed8d24574f6a9e436813cb2617d8@thread.tacv2')/messages('1590776551682')/replies/$entity",
    "id": "1591039710682",
    "replyToId": "1590776551682",
    "etag": "1591039710682",
    "messageType": "message",
    "createdDateTime": "2019-02-04T19:58:15.511Z",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2019-05-04T19:58:15.511Z",
    "lastEditedDateTime": null,
    "deleted": false,
    "subject": null,
    "summary": null,
    "importance": "normal",
    "locale": "en-us",
    "policyViolation": null,
    "from": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "conversation": null,
        "user": {
            "id": "8c0a1a67-50ce-4114-bb6c-da9c5dbcf6ca",
            "displayName": "Joh Doe",
            "userIdentityType": "aadUser"
        }
    },
    "body": {
        "contentType": "html",
        "content": "Hello World"
    },
    "attachments": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "reactions": []
}

Example 2: Import messages

Note: The permission scope Teamwork.Migrate.All is required for this scenario.

Request

The following example show how to import back-in-time messages using the createDateTime and from keys in the request body.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels/19:4b6bed8d24574f6a9e436813cb2617d8@thread.tacv2/messages/1590776551682/replies

{
   "createdDateTime":"2019-02-04T19:58:15.511Z",
   "from":{
      "user":{
         "id":"8c0a1a67-50ce-4114-bb6c-da9c5dbcf6ca",
         "displayName":"Joh Doe"
      }
   },
   "body":{
      "contentType":"html",
      "content":"Hello World"
   }
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
   "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5')/channels('19:4b6bed8d24574f6a9e436813cb2617d8@thread.tacv2')/messages('1590776551682')/replies/$entity",
   "id":"1591039710682",
   "replyToId":"1590776551682",
   "etag":"1591039710682",
   "messageType":"message",
   "createdDateTime":"2019-02-04T19:58:15.511Z",
   "lastModifiedDateTime":null,
   "deleted":false,
   "subject":null,
   "summary":null,
   "importance":"normal",
   "locale":"en-us",
   "policyViolation":null,
   "from":{
      "application":null,
      "device":null,
      "conversation":null,
      "user":{
         "id":"8c0a1a67-50ce-4114-bb6c-da9c5dbcf6ca",
         "displayName":"Joh Doe",
         "userIdentityType":"aadUser"
      }
   },
   "body":{
      "contentType":"html",
      "content":"Hello World"
   },
   "attachments":[ ],
   "mentions":[ ],
   "reactions":[ ]
}