Create Reasons

Create custom CometChat moderation flag reasons with REST API for review categories shown when messages are flagged.

POST /moderation/reasons

Create Reasons

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/moderation/reasons \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "id": "unfiltered-content",
  "name": "RawContent",
  "description": "Content delivered without moderation or filtering."
}
'

import requests

url = "https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/moderation/reasons"

payload = {
    "id": "unfiltered-content",
    "name": "RawContent",
    "description": "Content delivered without moderation or filtering."
}
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

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

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    id: 'unfiltered-content',
    name: 'RawContent',
    description: 'Content delivered without moderation or filtering.'
  })
};

fetch('https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/moderation/reasons', 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/moderation/reasons",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'id' => 'unfiltered-content',
    'name' => 'RawContent',
    'description' => 'Content delivered without moderation or filtering.'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($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/moderation/reasons"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"id\": \"unfiltered-content\",\n  \"name\": \"RawContent\",\n  \"description\": \"Content delivered without moderation or filtering.\"\n}")

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

	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.post("https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/moderation/reasons")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"id\": \"unfiltered-content\",\n  \"name\": \"RawContent\",\n  \"description\": \"Content delivered without moderation or filtering.\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://{appId}.api-{region}.cometchat.io/v3/moderation/reasons")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"id\": \"unfiltered-content\",\n  \"name\": \"RawContent\",\n  \"description\": \"Content delivered without moderation or filtering.\"\n}"

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

200

{
  "data": {
    "id": "unfiltered-content",
    "name": "RawContent",
    "description": "Content delivered without moderation or filtering.",
    "createdAt": 1760449410,
    "updatedAt": 1760449410
  }
}

Body

application/json

id · string · required

Unique identifier for the content type.

Example:

"unfiltered-content"

name · string · required

Display name for the content type.

Example:

"RawContent"

description · string

Description of the content type.

Example:

"Content delivered without moderation or filtering."

Response

200 - application/json

Reason created successfully.

data · object

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