Form Message

Form Message — CometChat documentation.

The FormMessage class is used to create an interactive form message that can be sent via CometChat. It extends the InteractiveMessage class from CometChat.

Constructor

Name	Type	Description
receiverId	string	The ID of the receiver
receiverType	string	The type of the receiver
title	string	The title of the form
formFields	Array<ElementEntity>	The fields of the form
submitElement	ButtonElement	The submit button of the form

Class Usage

How to create an instance of the FormMessage class:

Java

List<ElementEntity> elementEntities = new ArrayList<>();
//here we have created the object to display the TextInput into the form
TextInputElement textInputElement1 = new TextInputElement("element1", "Name");
TextInputElement textInputElement2 = new TextInputElement("element2", "Last Name");
TextInputElement textInputElement3 = new TextInputElement("element3", "Address");
textInputElement3.setMaxLines(5);
elementEntities.add(textInputElement1);
elementEntities.add(textInputElement2);
elementEntities.add(textInputElement3);


//here we have created the navigation action which will executated on a click of button
URLNavigationAction urlNavigationAction = new URLNavigationAction("https://www.cometchat.com/");

ButtonElement submitElement = new ButtonElement("idSubmit", "submit", urlNavigationAction);
submitElement.setDisableAfterInteracted(true);
FormMessage formMessage = new FormMessage(receiverId, receiverType, elementEntities, submitElement);
formMessage.setTitle("Socity Survey");
formMessage.setAllowSenderInteraction(true); // this will confirm if sender can interact with that form or not

Send Form Message

Java

formMessage.setSender(CometChatUIKit.getLoggedInUser());
formMessage.setSentAt(System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000);
formMessage.setReceiver(user); // set Receiver user/group object

CometChatUIKit.sendFormMessage(formMessage, false, new CometChat.CallbackListener<FormMessage>() {
 @Override
  public void onSuccess(FormMessage formMessage) {

  }

  @Override
   public void onError(CometChatException e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
    }
 });