Links

Unreal Chat SDK lets you encode URLs that begin with www, http, or https (plain links) so that they can be customized and rendered as clickable links. You can also let chat users create hyperlinks manually by replacing URLs in messages with descriptive texts (text links).

Usage in Blueprints and C++

Add linked text

Use the SendText() method with an additional TextLinks param to create a link within a message.

Method signature

Blueprint

C++ / Input parameters

Channel->SendText(
    FString Message, 
    FSendTextParams SendTextParams = FSendTextParams()
);

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
Message	FString	No	n/a	Text that you want to send to the selected channel.
SendTextParams	FSendTextParams	No	n/a	Struct providing additional parameters.
→ TextLinks	TArray<FPubnubTextLink>	No	n/a	Returned array of FPubnubTextLink (int Start_Index = 0, int End_Index = 0, FString Link = "") that are shown as text in the message. You can use this array to place a link in the proper position within a message.

Output

This method doesn't return any value.

Basic usage

Add a link to https://www.support-article.com/ to a message.

#include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h"
#include "PubnubChatSubsystem.h"

UGameInstance* GameInstance = UGameplayStatics::GetGameInstance(this);
UPubnubChatSubsystem* PubnubChatSubsystem = GameInstance->GetSubsystem<UPubnubChatSubsystem>();

UPubnubChat* Chat = PubnubChatSubsystem ->InitChat("demo", "demo", "my_user");

UPubnubChannel* Channel = Chat->GetChannel("support");

FSendTextParams SendTextParams;
FPubnubTextLink TextLink({14, 44, "https://www.support-article.com/"});
SendTextParams.TextLinks.Add(TextLink);
Channel->SendText("Support page:", SendTextParams);

Get text links

TextLinks() is a getter method that returns all text links in a given message.

Method signature

Blueprint

C++ / Input parameters

Message->TextLinks();

Output

Type	Description
TArray<FPubnubTextLink>	Array of text links included in the message.

Basic usage

Get all text links included in the message with the 16200000000000000 timetoken.

#include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h"
#include "PubnubChatSubsystem.h"

UGameInstance* GameInstance = UGameplayStatics::GetGameInstance(this);
UPubnubChatSubsystem* PubnubChatSubsystem = GameInstance->GetSubsystem<UPubnubChatSubsystem>();

UPubnubChat* Chat = PubnubChatSubsystem ->InitChat("demo", "demo", "my_user");

UPubnubChannel* Channel = Chat->GetChannel("support");

FString Timetoken = "16200000000000001";

// Fetch the message
UPubnubMessage* Message = Channel->GetMessage(Timetoken);

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