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Conversation

Represents a conversation with "direct message" visibility.

    • Example
    • Required attributes
    • Optional attributes
    • See also

Example

{
  "id": "418450",
  "unread": true,
  "accounts": [
    {
      "id": "482403",
      "username": "amic",
      "acct": "amic@nulled.red",
      ...
    }
  ],
  "last_status": {
    "id": "103196583826321184",
    "created_at": "2019-11-25T04:08:24.000Z",
    "in_reply_to_id": "103196540587943467",
    "in_reply_to_account_id": "14715",
    ...
  }
}

Required attributes

id

Description: Local database ID of the conversation.
Type: String (cast from an integer, but not guaranteed to be a number)
Version history: Added in 2.6.0

accounts

Description: Participants in the conversation.
Type: Array of Account
Version history: Added in 2.6.0

unread

Description: Is the conversation currently marked as unread?
Type: Boolean
Version history: Added in 2.6.0

Optional attributes

last_status

Description: The last status in the conversation, to be used for optional display.
Type: Status
Version history: Added in 2.6.0

See also

conversations
app/serializers/rest/conversation_serializer.rb

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