Accept

This operation is part of the Chat API section of the Genesys Web Services REST API.

Overview

When a new chat is offered, an agent can either accept or reject a new chat invitation.

This operation accepts an incoming chat.

Accepting a chat allows an agent to start working on that chat.

After successfully executing this operation, a CometD notification will arrive with complete chat history.

Request URL	/api/v2/me/chats/{id}
HTTP Method	POST
Required Features	api-multimedia

Parameters

Parameter	Value
operationName	Accept
nickname	agent nickname as will be seen by customer

Sample

HTTP Request

POST on /me/chats/{id}

{
  "operationName":"Accept",
  "nickname":agent-nickname-to-be-displayed-in-chat
}

HTTP Response

{
  "statusCode": 0
}

For details on the statusCode value, please refer to the All Methods sub-section of the Return Values page.

Notification

Here are the list of notifications received after accepting a chat:

Status changed to Chatting

{
    "messageType": "ChatStateChangeMessage",
    "referenceId": 17,
    "notificationType": "StatusChange",
    "chat": {
        "state": "Chatting",
        "capabilities": [
            "Transfer",
            "Complete",
            "Leave",
            "InFocus",
            "SendMessage",
            "SendStartTypingNotification",
            "SendStopTypingNotification"
        ],
        "id": "0000Na9B26EF002X",
        "uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/chats/0000Na9B26EF002X",
        "participants": []
    }
}

Updated participant list

{
    "messageType": "ChatStateChangeMessage",
    "notificationType": "ParticipantsUpdated",
    "chat": {
        "state": "Chatting",
        "capabilities": [
            "Transfer",
            "Complete",
            "Leave",
            "InFocus",
            "SendMessage",
            "SendStartTypingNotification",
            "SendStopTypingNotification"
        ],
        "id": "0000Na9B26EF002X",
        "uri": "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/chats/0000Na9B26EF002X",
        "participants": [
            {
                "type": "Agent",
                "nickname": "Marat",
                "participantId": "009052C5E743004C"
            },
            {
                "type": "Customer",
                "nickname": "PersonP",
                "participantId": "009052C5E6D6004A"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Chat history up to the point of joining

{
    "messageType": "MessageLogUpdated",
    "notificationType": "NewMessages",
    "messages": [
        {
            "index": 1,
            "type": "ParticipantJoined",
            "from": {
                "type": "Customer",
                "nickname": "PersonP",
                "participantId": "009052C5E6D6004A"
            },
            "visibility": "All",
            "timestamp": "2014-01-02T14:23:18.000-0800"
        },
        {
            "index": 2,
            "type": "ParticipantJoined",
            "from": {
                "type": "Agent",
                "nickname": "Marat",
                "participantId": "009052C5E743004C"
            },
            "visibility": "All",
            "timestamp": "2014-01-02T14:23:18.109-0800"
        },
        {
            "index": 3,
            "type": "ParticipantLeft",
            "from": {
                "type": "Agent",
                "nickname": "Marat",
                "participantId": "009052C5E743004C"
            },
            "visibility": "All",
            "timestamp": "2014-01-02T14:23:19.909-0800"
        },
        {
            "index": 4,
            "type": "TypingStarted",
            "from": {
                "type": "Customer",
                "nickname": "PersonP",
                "participantId": "009052C5E6D6004A"
            },
            "visibility": "All",
            "timestamp": "2014-01-02T14:23:20.121-0800"
        },
        {
            "index": 5,
            "type": "Text",
            "from": {
                "type": "Customer",
                "nickname": "PersonP",
                "participantId": "009052C5E6D6004A"
            },
            "text": "Hello World",
            "visibility": "All",
            "timestamp": "2014-01-02T14:23:20.126-0800"
        },
        {
            "index": 6,
            "type": "ParticipantJoined",
            "from": {
                "type": "Agent",
                "nickname": "Marat",
                "participantId": "009052C5EF51004D"
            },
            "visibility": "All",
            "timestamp": "2014-01-02T14:23:20.171-0800"
        }
    ],
    "chatUri": "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/chats/0000Na9B26EF002X"
}