Twilio 聊天 - 将用户加入具有身份和友好名称的频道

Question

How do i create a user and join that user into a channel with a friendly name?

All the examples in the documentation located here assumes that a user with appropriate friendlyName is already present in the service instance.

So, if i want to join a user in my system to a channel, Do i need to first create a user using users rest api endpoint and then add that user as a member of a channel?

channel.members.create(user.identity)

Above code above throws 409 conflict error if i re-create a user. So i am forced to fetch a user, see if the user exists then create the user. If user already exists, then I have to update the user with friendlyName.

I am forced to check if the user in my system exists in that service instance everytime that user joins a channel.

Is there a way I can join a user to a channel with friendly name so Twilio creates if the user doesn't exist and update friendly name if user already is in twilio service instance?

This is the sequence of events I would like to see:

1. User in my system clicks join room button
2. Either from client side or server side, I join the user into that channel with identity and friendlyName.
3. Twilio creates a user/member in service instance and channel if the user/member doesnt exist Twilio updates a user/members friendly name if the user already exists.

Answer 1

2022 answer:

const participant = await conversation.getParticipantByIdentity(userIdentity);
if (!participant) {
 await conversation.join();
}

And yes, yon need to use Conversation API.