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participant

Applies to: Skype for Business 2015

Represents a remote participant in a conversation.

For more on web links, see Web links.

Name Description
rel The resource that this link points to. In JSON, this is the outer container.
href The location of this resource on the server, and the target of an HTTP operation.
title The display name or normalized phone number of the participant, if available.

Resource description

A participant resource is the transient representation of a contact that captures attributes such as role and capabilities (e.g. promoting to leader or admitting from lobby).A participant's lifetime is controlled by the server and starts when the participant is present upon joining an onlineMeeting or added later on to a conversation.This resource is removed when the participant leaves the conversation.

Properties

Name Description
anonymous Whether the participant is anonymous.
inLobby Whether the participant is in the lobby.
local Whether the participant is local.The local participant is the same as the user.
name The participant's display name.
organizer Whether the participant is an organizer.An organizer can never be locked out of her own meeting.
otherPhoneNumber The participant's Other Phone.
role The participant's role (Role), such as Attendee or Leader.
sourceNetwork The participant's source network (SourceNetwork), such as SameEnterprise or PublicCloud (for example, a Skype contact).
uri The participant's URI.
workPhoneNumber The participant's Phone URI.

This resource can have the following relationships.

Link Description
self The link to the current resource.
admit Admits the corresponding participant into the onlineMeeting.
contact Represents a person or service that the user can communicate and collaborate with.
contactPhoto The photo of a contact.
contactPresence Represents a contact's availability and activity.
conversation Represents the local participants perspective on a multi-modal, multi-party communication.
demote Demotes the corresponding participant from the leader role to the attendee role.
eject Ejects the corresponding participant from the onlineMeeting.
me Represents the user.
participantApplicationSharing Represents whether a participant is using the application sharing modality in a conversation.
participantAudio Represents whether a participant is using the audio modality in a conversation.
participantDataCollaboration Represents whether a participant is using the data collaboration modality in a conversation.
participantMessaging Used to determine whether a participant is using the instant messaging modality in a conversation.
participantPanoramicVideo Represents whether a participant is using the panoramic video modality in a conversation.
participantVideo Represents whether a participant is using the main video modality in a conversation.
promote Promotes the corresponding participant from the attendee role to the leader role.
reject Denies the corresponding participant access to the onlineMeeting.

Azure Active Directory scopes for online applications

The user must have at least one of these scopes for operations on the resource to be allowed.

Scope Permission Description
Conversations.Initiate Initiate conversations and join meetings Allows the app to initiate instant messages, audio, video, and desktop sharing conversations; and join meetings on-behalf of the signed-in user
Conversations.Receive Receive conversation invites Allows the app to receive instant messages, audio, video, and desktop sharing invitations on-behalf of the signed-in user

Events

Added

Resource Priority Sender Reason
participant High conversation Indicates that the participant has joined the conversation. The application can choose to retrieve the updated information.

If an application caches conversation data, the application should rely on this event to decide whether to update the conversation cache.The application will receive this event when the participant is first added to the conversation.Other added events for the same participant indicate that the participant has been admitted to the conference, promoted, demoted, or is typing a message.

Sample of returned event data. This sample is given only as an illustration of event syntax. The semantic content is not guaranteed to correspond to a valid scenario.

{
  "_links" : {
    "self" : {
      "href" : "http://sample:80/ucwa/v1/applications/appId/events?ack=1"
    },
    "next" : {
     "href" : "http://sample:80/ucwa/v1/applications/appId/events?ack=2"
    }
  },
  "sender" : [
    {
      "rel" : "conversation",
      "href" : "https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137",
      "events" : [
        {
          "link" : {
            "rel" : "participant",
            "href" : "https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196"
          },
          "type" : "added"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Updated

Resource Priority Sender Reason
participant High conversation Indicates that the participant has been updated. The application can choose to retrieve the updated information.

The application will receive this event when the user's capabilities to admit, promote, or demote a participant have changed. Note that this is the only updated event for a participant.For example, when the user is a leader, the user will lose the capability to admit the participant after the participant is movedfrom being in the lobby to being an attendee.

Sample of returned event data. This sample is given only as an illustration of event syntax. The semantic content is not guaranteed to correspond to a valid scenario.

{
  "_links" : {
    "self" : {
      "href" : "http://sample:80/ucwa/v1/applications/appId/events?ack=1"
    },
    "next" : {
      "href" : "http://sample:80/ucwa/v1/applications/appId/events?ack=2"
    }
  },
  "sender" : [
    {
      "rel" : "conversation",
      "href" : "https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137",
      "events" : [
        {
          "link" : {
            "rel" : "participant",
            "href" : "https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196"
          },
          "type" : "updated"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Deleted

Resource Priority Sender Reason
participant High conversation Indicates that the participant has left a conversation.

If an application caches conversation data, the application should remove this participant from its conversation cache.

Sample of returned event data. This sample is given only as an illustration of event syntax. The semantic content is not guaranteed to correspond to a valid scenario.

{
  "_links" : {
    "self" : {
      "href" : "http://sample:80/ucwa/v1/applications/appId/events?ack=1"
    },
    "next" : {
      "href" : "http://sample:80/ucwa/v1/applications/appId/events?ack=2"
    }
  },
  "sender" : [
    {
      "rel" : "conversation",
      "href" : "https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137",
      "events" : [
        {
          "link" : {
            "rel" : "participant",
            "href" : "https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196"
          },
          "type" : "deleted"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Operations

GET

Returns a representation of the participant resource.

Request body

None

Response body

The response from a GET request contains the properties and links shown in the Properties and Links sections at the top of this page.

Synchronous errors

The errors below (if any) are specific to this resource. Generic errors that can apply to any resource are covered in Generic synchronous errors.

Error Code Subcode Description
ServiceFailure 500 InvalidExchangeServerVersion Invalid exchange server version.The exchange mailbox of the server might have moved to an unsupported version for the required feature.
Conflict 409 AlreadyExists The already exists error.
Conflict 409 TooManyGroups The too many groups error.
Conflict 409 None Un-supported Service/Resource/API error.
Gone 410 CannotRedirect Cannot redirect since there is no back up pool configured.

Examples

JSON Request

Get https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196 HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer cwt=PHNhbWw6QXNzZXJ0aW9uIHhtbG5...uZm8
Host: fe1.contoso.com
Accept: application/json

JSON Response

This sample is given only as an illustration of response syntax. The semantic content is not guaranteed to correspond to a valid scenario.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 2022
{
  "rel" : "participant",
  "anonymous" : true,
  "inLobby" : true,
  "local" : true,
  "name" : "Joe Smith",
  "organizer" : true,
  "otherPhoneNumber" : "tel:+14251111111",
  "role" : "Attendee",
  "sourceNetwork" : "SameEnterprise",
  "uri" : "sip:john@contoso.com",
  "workPhoneNumber" : "tel:+14251111111",
  "_links" : {
    "self" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196"
    },
    "admit" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/admit"
    },
    "contact" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/people/282"
    },
    "contactPhoto" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/people/282/contactPhoto"
    },
    "contactPresence" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/people/282/contactPresence"
    },
    "conversation" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137"
    },
    "demote" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/demote"
    },
    "eject" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/eject"
    },
    "me" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/me"
    },
    "participantApplicationSharing" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantApplicationSharing"
    },
    "participantAudio" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantAudio"
    },
    "participantDataCollaboration" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantDataCollaboration"
    },
    "participantMessaging" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantMessaging"
    },
    "participantPanoramicVideo" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantPanoramicVideo"
    },
    "participantVideo" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantVideo"
    },
    "promote" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/promote"
    },
    "reject" : {
      "href" : "/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/reject"
    }
  }
}

XML Request

Get https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196 HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer cwt=PHNhbWw6QXNzZXJ0aW9uIHhtbG5...uZm8
Host: fe1.contoso.com
Accept: application/xml

XML Response

This sample is given only as an illustration of response syntax. The semantic content is not guaranteed to correspond to a valid scenario.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 2519
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resource rel="participant" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/rtc/2012/03/ucwa">
  <link rel="admit" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/admit" />
  <link rel="contact" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/people/282" />
  <link rel="contactPhoto" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/people/282/contactPhoto" />
  <link rel="contactPresence" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/people/282/contactPresence" />
  <link rel="conversation" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137" />
  <link rel="demote" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/demote" />
  <link rel="eject" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/eject" />
  <link rel="me" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/me" />
  <link rel="participantApplicationSharing" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantApplicationSharing" />
  <link rel="participantAudio" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantAudio" />
  <link rel="participantDataCollaboration" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantDataCollaboration" />
  <link rel="participantMessaging" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantMessaging" />
  <link rel="participantPanoramicVideo" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantPanoramicVideo" />
  <link rel="participantVideo" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/participantVideo" />
  <link rel="promote" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/promote" />
  <link rel="reject" href="/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/participants/196/reject" />
  <property name="rel">participant</property>
  <property name="anonymous">True</property>
  <property name="inLobby">True</property>
  <property name="local">True</property>
  <property name="name">Joe Smith</property>
  <property name="organizer">True</property>
  <property name="otherPhoneNumber">tel:+14251111111</property>
  <property name="role">Attendee</property>
  <property name="sourceNetwork">SameEnterprise</property>
  <property name="uri">sip:john@contoso.com</property>
  <property name="workPhoneNumber">tel:+14251111111</property>
</resource>