Initiate User

To start using the LikeMinds Chat and enable personalized experiences for your users, you need to initiate them within the system. This process associates a user in your application with a user in the LikeMinds Chat, allowing for seamless integration and realtime messaging in your application.

Steps to initiate a User

1. Create a InitiateUserRequest object using user credentials.
2. For initiating a user, call initiateUser() function using the instance of LMChatClient class.
3. Use the response as per your requirement

//Set userId to custom user ID present in your database,
//or keep it blank to get one generated by the SDK
String userId = "3000";
String userName = "Tony Stark";

InitiateUserRequest request =  (InitiateUserRequestBuiler()
                    ..userName(userName)
                    ..userId(userId)).build();

final LMResponse<InitiateUserResponse> response = await lmChatClient.initiateUser(request);

tip

We suggest that you use the unique ID from your database for the user so that you do not have to save the one we generate.

Models

InitiateUserRequest

List of parameters for the InitiateUserRequest class

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
userId	String	Unique ID for the userId
userName	String	Name of the userName
imageUrl	String	URL of the user's profile image	✔️
isGuest	bool	Is the user a guest?	✔️

InitiateUserResponse

List of parameters for the InitiateUserResponse class

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
success	bool	API success status
errorMessage	String?	Error message in case of failure	✔️
initiateUser	InitiateUser?	User and community details	✔️

Initiate User

List of parameters used in InitiateUser

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
user	User	user data
community	Community	community data

Member State

When building out your chat experience, you might want to moderate some actions based on the state of a community member. That's where member state comes in. With a single getMemberState() function you can determine if a member is a CM, or not.

final bool isCM = await lmChatClient.getMemberState();