Number of unread messages

[sanmiguel2019]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Users who use Tinode with rest auth may need to know the number of unread messages for each user to show this number on a parent application. Now the ony way to do this is to subscribe to me topic but this loads a huge amount of unnecessary data (avatars, user agents, etc, etc, that need processing, calculating.

Describe the solution you'd like

1. get message could have what option like unread that returns only readId and seqId for each topic, probably without a need to attach, to make things much easer.
2. Tinode could store/increase the number of unread messages in the memory and reset it when user interacts in a client.

[or-else]

Just use https://github.com/tinode/chat/tree/master/server/push/stdout

[Chr728]

was the feature already added or do you want me to add this feature? if possible please give details of what is needed to add I am interested to collaborate on this.

[or-else]

1. get message could have what option like unread that returns only readId and seqId for each topic, probably without a need to attach, to make things much easer.

I you want to do just (1) then it's not too hard. I don't think (2) is needed: the cache already exists, but querying it from the client is not obviously needed.

[Chr728]

ok will trying looking to do just (1) . thank you

[Chr728]

@or-else is there any way to chat with you regarding this issue over discord or any platform you prefer please?

[or-else]

You are welcome to post to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tinode and we will respond. We do not use chat for discussions because we want discussions to be publicly archived and searchable by all.

[Chr728]

@or-else thank you, I wrote and will wait for the answer.

[or-else]

I think this is outdated. Please post an update if it's still needed/relevant.