Unblock User

Unblock a user by UID with CometChat REST API to restore direct messaging access between user accounts.

DELETE /users/{uid}/blockedusers

Unblock User

cURL

curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/users/{uid}/blockedusers \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'apikey: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "blockedUids": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
'

import requests

url = "https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/users/{uid}/blockedusers"

payload = { "blockedUids": ["<string>"] }
headers = {
    "apikey": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.delete(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {apikey: '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({blockedUids: ['<string>']})
};

fetch('https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/users/{uid}/blockedusers', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/users/{uid}/blockedusers",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'blockedUids' => [
        '<string>'
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "apikey: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/users/{uid}/blockedusers"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"blockedUids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("apikey", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/users/{uid}/blockedusers")
  .header("apikey", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"blockedUids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/users/{uid}/blockedusers")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["apikey"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"blockedUids\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "data": {
    "cometchat-uid-4": {
      "success": true,
      "message": "The user with UID cometchat-uid-1 has blocked user with UID cometchat-uid-3 successfully."
    }
  }
}

For the complete error reference, see Error Guide.

Authorizations

apikey · string · header · required

API Key with fullAccess scope(i.e. Rest API Key from the Dashboard).

Path Parameters

uid · string · required

An UID of a user.

Body

application/json

blockedUids · string[] · required

UIDs of the users to be unblock

Response

200 - application/json

Blocked user

data · object

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