Create Post

When creating a post, you can select the target type or which feed you want the post to exist, It can be any of the following:

• User feed - collection of posts for a user's timeline

• Community feed - collection of posts from members of the community

In creating a post, these are the following parameters:

Parameter	Description	Attributes
targetId	ID of the user, community, or content. If you want the post to exist in a user feed, you need to provide the userID, etc..	userId or communityId
targetType	Where you want the post to exist	targetUser - post will exist in the user feed targetCommunity - post will exist in the community feed
text	Post content (for text post)

Post target type

The targetType parameter can be any of the following:

• UserFeed

• CommunityFeed

If you want the post to belong to a user feed, targetType should be targetUser(String userId) and userId is the ID of the user. Otherwise, if you want it to belong to a community, targetCommunity(String communityId) and communityId should be the ID of the community respectively.

Post type

A single post can have up to 20,000 characters. For custom post, the size of the JSON data must not exceed 100KB.

For a successful creation of the post, the reply will be the post model. Otherwise, it will return an error.

Amity SDK supports the creation of the following post types:

• Text post

• Image post

• File post

• Video post

File Upload

Before you can create an image, video, file, or custom post, you must first upload the image, video, or the file that you will add to your post. The SDK provides a convenient FileRepository class to handle the uploading of these files.

The model that you will receive from the live object used to upload file via FileRepository

Model Description

Name	Data Type	Description
fileId	String	Root file key on cloud storage
fileUrl	String	Http link for file download
mimeType	String	MimeType of a file
fileSize	String	Actual file size