chat: getAllRetainedMessages

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Get all retained messages from all chats that a user is a participant in, including one-on-one chats, group chats, and meeting chats.

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Note: This is a metered API that supports the model=A and model=B payment models. For details, see Payment models. If you don't specify a payment model in your query, the default evaluation mode will be used.

Depending on which payment model you choose, a license might also be required.

Note

This API requires Teams retention policies to be configured. For more information, see Manage retention policies for Microsoft Teams.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Chat.Read.All	Chat.ReadWrite.All

HTTP request

GET /users/{id}/chats/getAllRetainedMessages

Optional query parameters

The following example shows how to use the model query parameter with values A or B to select the preferred licensing and payment model. If you don't specify a payment model, evaluation mode is used by default.

GET /users/{id}/chats/getAllRetainedMessages?model=A
GET /users/{id}/chats/getAllRetainedMessages?model=B

This method supports the following OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Name	Description
$filter	The $filter query parameter supports date and time range queries on the lastModifiedDateTime property using date range parameters.
$top	Use the $top query parameter to control the number of items per response.

The following example shows a request that uses the $top and $filter query parameters to get a list of retained chat messages.

GET /users/{id}/chats/getAllRetainedMessages?$top=50&$filter=lastModifiedDateTime gt 2020-06-04T18:03:11.591Z and lastModifiedDateTime lt 2020-06-05T21:00:09.413Z

The following table lists examples that show how to use the $filter parameter.

Scenario	$filter parameter	Possible values
Get messages sent by user identity type	$filter=from/user/userIdentityType eq '{teamworkUserIdentityType}'	aadUser, onPremiseAadUser, anonymousGuest, federatedUser, personalMicrosoftAccountUser, skypeUser, phoneUser
Get messages sent by application type	$filter=from/application/applicationIdentityType eq '{teamworkApplicationIdentity}'	aadApplication, bot, tenantBot, office365Connector, outgoingWebhook
Get messages sent by user ID	$filter=from/user/id eq '{oid}'
Get control (system event) messages	$filter=messageType eq 'systemEventMessage'
Exclude control (system event) messages	$filter=messageType ne 'systemEventMessage'

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of chatMessage objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5/chats/getAllRetainedMessages

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Chats.GetAllRetainedMessages.GetAsGetAllRetainedMessagesGetResponseAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc-beta users chats get-all-retained-messages get --user-id {user-id}

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
getAllRetainedMessages, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Chats().GetAllRetainedMessages().GetAsGetAllRetainedMessagesGetResponse(context.Background(), nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

var result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").chats().getAllRetainedMessages().get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let getAllRetainedMessages = await client.api('/users/8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5/chats/getAllRetainedMessages')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->chats()->getAllRetainedMessages()->get()->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Users.Functions

Get-MgBetaUserChatRetainedMessage -UserId $userId

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').chats.get_all_retained_messages.get()

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#Collection(chatMessage)",
  "@odata.count": 10,
  "@odata.nextLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users/8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5/chats/getAllRetainedMessages?$skip=10",
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.chatMessage",
      "id": "1600457965467",
      "replyToId": null,
      "etag": "1600457965467",
      "messageType": "message",
      "createdDateTime": "2020-09-18T19:39:25.467Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-09-18T19:39:25.467Z",
      "lastEditedDateTime": null,
      "deletedDateTime": null,
      "subject": null,
      "summary": null,
      "chatId": "19:0de69e5e-2da8-4cf2-821f-5e6585b2c65b_5c64e248-3269-4268-a36e-0f80314e9c39@unq.gbl.spaces",
      "importance": "normal",
      "locale": "en-us",
      "webUrl": null,
      "channelIdentity": null,
      "policyViolation": null,
      "eventDetail": null,
      "from": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "conversation": null,
        "user": {
          "id": "0de69e5e-2da8-4cf2-821f-5e6585b2c65b",
          "displayName": "Richard Wilson",
          "userIdentityType": "aadUser"
        }
      },
      "body": {
        "contentType": "html",
        "content": "<div>\n<blockquote itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http://schema.skype.com/Reply\" itemid=\"1600457867820\">\n<strong itemprop=\"mri\" itemid=\"8:orgid:0de69e5e-2da8-4cf2-821f-5e6585b2c65b\">Richard Wilson</strong><span itemprop=\"time\" itemid=\"1600457867820\"></span>\n<p itemprop=\"preview\">1237</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>this is a reply</p>\n</div>"
      },
      "attachments": [],
      "mentions": [],
      "reactions": []
    }
  ]
}

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