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sendMessage

Applies to: Skype for Business 2015

Sends an instant message to the participants in a conversation.

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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.

Resource description

Applications can use sendMessage to compose an outgoing instant message. This link is available only when the messaging modality is connected.

Properties

None

None

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

Operations

POST

Passes a plain text body to the server and starts a message operation in the event channel.

Query parameters

Name Description Required?
operationId An application-supplied identifier to track the message resource created by the server. Yes

Request body

Name Description Required?
operationId An application-supplied identifier to track the message resource created by the server.String Yes

Response body

Item Description
message Represents an instant message sent or received by the local participant.

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 CallbackChannelError The remote event channel is not reachable
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

Only server-supplied query parameters, if any, are shown in the request sample.

JSON Request

Post https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/messaging/sendMessage HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer cwt=PHNhbWw6QXNzZXJ0aW9uIHhtbG5...uZm8
Host: fe1.contoso.com
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 12
HelloWorld!

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/1.1 201 Created
Location: /ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/messaging/messages/165

XML Request

Post https://fe1.contoso.com:443/ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/messaging/sendMessage HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer cwt=PHNhbWw6QXNzZXJ0aW9uIHhtbG5...uZm8
Host: fe1.contoso.com
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 12

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/1.1 201 Created
Location: /ucwa/v1/applications/192/communication/conversations/137/messaging/messages/165