Rocket.Chat/app/lib

Rocket.Chat main library

This package contains the main libraries of Rocket.Chat.

APIs

Settings

This is an example to create settings:

RocketChat.settings.addGroup('Settings_Group', function() {
    this.add('SettingInGroup', 'default_value', { type: 'boolean', public: true });

    this.section('Group_Section', function() {
        this.add('Setting_Inside_Section', 'default_value', {
            type: 'boolean',
            public: true,
            enableQuery: {
                _id: 'SettingInGroup',
                value: true
            }
        });
    });
});

RocketChat.settings.add type:

• string - Stores a string value
  • Additional options:
    • multiline: boolean
• int - Stores an integer value
• boolean - Stores a boolean value
• select - Creates an <select> element
  • Additional options:
    • values: Array of: { key: 'value', i18nLabel: 'Option_Label' }
• color - Creates a color pick element
• action - Executes a Method.call to value
  • Additional options:
    • actionText: Translatable value of the button
• asset - Creates an upload field

RocketChat.settings.add options:

• description - Description of the setting
• public - Boolean to set if the setting should be sent to client or not
• enableQuery - Only enable this setting if the correspondent setting has the value specified
• alert - Shows an alert message with the given text

Custom Room Types

Custom room types are now a regular and expected customization to Rocket.Chat. As a result of this, we have expanded the capabilities which custom room types are given. Custom room types now have full control over the settings which display on the room's setting tab. To achieve this, however, we had to forcefully break the previous behavior in order to force the new behavior. If, after merging, you are getting the error Error: Invalid Room Configuration object, it must extend "RoomTypeConfig", then you will need to modify your custom room code to the class setup explained below.

Implementing the new types requires two steps. First step is to implement a your own custom class to define the route configuration. Then the second step would be to implement your own room class, which will contain all of the required methods and configuration for usage in the clients.

First Step: RoomTypeRouteConfig

If your room adds a custom route to the browser, then you will need to create a class which extends RoomTypeRouteConfig. This class can be imported using es6 style imports import { RoomTypeRouteConfig } from 'meteor/rocketchat:lib';. There are two fields which are required when constructing your route which is { name, path } and both are strings. Then your class must implement the action(params, queryParams) method.

class LivechatRoomRoute extends RoomTypeRouteConfig {
	constructor() {
		super({
			name: 'live',
			path: '/live/:code(\\d+)'
		});
	}

	action(params) {
		openRoom('l', params.code);
	}

	link(sub) {
		return {
			code: sub.code
		};
	}
}

Second Step: RoomTypeConfig

Next you need to create a class which extends RoomTypeConfig. This class can be imported using the es6 style import such as import { RoomTypeConfig } from 'meteor/rocketchat:lib';. There are two required properties when constructing your class which is { identifier, order } with the identifier being a string and order being a number. There are default implementations of the required methods, so unless you want to overwrite the default behavior, such as disallowing certain settings, then you will need to implement that method and handle it.

class LivechatRoomType extends RoomTypeConfig {
	constructor() {
		super({
			identifier: 'l',
			order: 5,
			icon: 'livechat',
			label: 'Livechat',
			route: new LivechatRoomRoute() //defined above, see the example
		});
	}

	roomName(roomData) {
		if (!roomData.name) {
			return roomData.label;
		} else {
			return roomData.name;
		}
	}

	condition() {
		return RocketChat.settings.get('Livechat_enabled') && RocketChat.authz.hasPermission('view-l-room');
	}
}

Then for publishing of the data, you will need to provide the information about the new room with (on the server):

RocketChat.roomTypes.setPublish('l', (identifier) => {
    return RocketChat.models.Rooms.findByTypeAndName('l', identifier, {
        fields: {
            name: 1,
            t: 1,
            cl: 1,
            u: 1,
            usernames: 1,
            v: 1
        }
    });
});

AccountBox

You can add items to the left upper corner drop menu:

AccountBox.addItem({
    name: 'Livechat',
    icon: 'icon-chat-empty',
    class: 'livechat-manager',
    condition: () => {
        return RocketChat.authz.hasPermission('view-livechat-manager');
    }
});

Functions

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Methods

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Publications

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