Requests for additional APIs

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As far as I’m aware, Mattermost has no concept of archiving channels. It’s not in the API because it’s not possible to do. You can delete channels, but I think that’s permanent.

The equivalent API calls for the other ones you mentioned are:

  • channels.history - Mattermost splits this into several different API calls. All of them sit under api/v1/channels/<channel ID>/posts.
  • /<offset>/<limit> simply returns the specified number of posts, where <offset> is the how many posts back in time you want to start from (usually 0) and <limit> is the number of posts to get.
  • /<time> returns all mosts made or modified since the given UNIX timestamp.
  • /<post ID>/before/<offset>/<limit> will return the given number of posts before the one specified in <post ID>
  • /<post ID>/after/<offset>/<limit> will return the given number of posts after the one specified
    The only thing that’s really missing from this is the ability to get all posts between 2 times, but its not impossible to do that with the available API calls.
  • channels.invite - In Mattermost, you don’t really invite, you simply add them. Use api/v1/channels/<channel ID>/add with the ID of the user you want to add in the request payload (as a JSON string of course).
  • channels.rename - Use api/v1/channels/update. The request payload for this should contain the entire channel JSON string with the display_name field modified.