Message

A chat message to be sent through an instant messaging application. Can contain one or several text bodies (organized by mime-type, plaintext or markdown), as well as attached entities (either arbitrary file attachments or FDC3 actions to be embedded in the message). To be put inside a ChatInitSettings object.

Schema

https://fdc3.finos.org/schemas/next/context/message.schema.json (github)

Type

fdc3.message

Properties

text

type: object

Subproperties:

text/plain

type: string

Plain text encoded content.

text/markdown

type: string

Markdown encoded content

A map of string mime-type to string content

entities

type: object

Additional Properties

Any of:

type: Action

type: object

A map of string IDs to entities that should be attached to the message, such as an action to perform, a file attachment, or other FDC3 context object.

Example

{
  "type": "fdc3.message",
  "text": {
    "text/plain": "Hey all, can we discuss the issue together? I attached a screenshot and a link to the current exchange rate"
  },
  "entities": {
    "picture1": {
      "type": "fdc3.fileAttachment",
      "data": {
        "name": "myImage.png",
        "dataUri": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAgAAAAIAQMAAAD+wSzIAAAABlBMVEX///+/v7+jQ3Y5AAAADklEQVQI12P4AIX8EAgALgAD/aNpbtEAAAAASUVORK5CYII"
      }
    },
    "eurusd_action": {
      "type": "fdc3.action",
      "title": "Click to view Chart",
      "intent": "ViewChart",
      "context": {
        "type": "fdc3.chart",
        "instruments": [
          {
            "type": "fdc3.instrument",
            "id": {
              "ticker": "EURUSD"
            }
          }
        ],
        "range": {
          "type": "fdc3.dateRange",
          "starttime": "2020-09-01T08:00:00.000Z",
          "endtime": "2020-10-31T08:00:00.000Z"
        },
        "style": "candle"
      }
    }
  }
}