Hi Team,
Is there any way to Get Messages of a subscriber ordered by latest messages? If I send limit as 50 to getMessages API, it is giving me top 50 in chronological order but I'm looking for latest 50 messages to display on the app. Please let me know if that is possible.
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Hi there,
To retrieve the latest 50 messages for a subscriber using the Novu API, you can use the
getMessages API endpoint. Currently, the API retrieves messages in chronological order, and there isn't a direct parameter to fetch them in reverse chronological order (from the newest to the oldest).
However, you can still achieve this by fetching the messages as you currently do and then reversing the order in your application logic after retrieval. This means you would programmatically sort the messages by their timestamp in descending order once you have fetched them.
If you're fetching messages and finding that they're not in the expected order, you might want to double-check the timestamp data and ensure that your sorting logic is functioning correctly.
For more details on fetching messages, you can refer to the official documentation here: Get messages (1) .
Let me know if you need further assistance!Thanks for the quick response, to fetch all notifications and reverse it programatically, I should know how many messages are there for that subscriber right? Is there any way I can skip the limit to get all messages? I see by default limit is 10.
Got it. Tagging @Support for additional help.
Got it. Tagging @Support for additional help.
@Soumith
There is small bug there, if you use any filter like channel or subscriberId, then it will return last created order
@Pawan Jain In that case, is it possible to get all notifications without a limit(default 10) on it for specific subscriber?
@Pawan Jain I would like to show recent 50 in-app messages for that specific subscriber on his dashboard, Is there any way we can achieve this?
@Soumith you can use limit value as 50 for this.
Are you facing any issue?
@Pawan Jain Yes, but if I use limit as 50, I'm getting 50 oldest messages in chronological order. If I have 100 notifications for a subscriber and if I limit 50, it's giving me 1-50, but what I need is 50-100 so that I can sort it in reverse order even if it is in chronological order. Or, if there is an api to get all 100 messages without a limit that will help.
@Soumith
Checkout this video.
I am using channel and subscriberId params with
GET /messages api. It is returning response in most recent created order@Pawan Jain I'm using node sdk to get messages, does it make any difference? I have also checked it with curl call, I still get in chronological order.
@Soumith, you just advanced to level 1!
@Soumith
Just want to check if you are using novu cloud or self hosting Novu?
We are using self hosting Novu @Pawan Jain, did we have recent fix for this?
Hi @Pawan Jain,
Any update on this?
@Pawan Jain Is there any way to get total number of messages(count) for specific subscriber?
@Pawan Jain https://github.com/novuhq/novu/blob/9978bb7fb93f26d74de1ea8236a125583ed3938a/libs/dal/src/repositories/message/message.repository.ts#L705
getMessages API doesn't have
sort: '-createdAt', so I guess it would return in chronological order right? I wonder how are you getting recent created order from postman?GitHub
novu/libs/dal/src/repositories/message/message.repository.ts at 997...
Open-Source Notification Platform. Embeddable Notification Center, E-mail, Push and Slack Integrations. - novuhq/novu
Got it. Tagging @Support for additional help.
@Soumith
Sorry for delay in response.
We will fix this.
I see you are using self hosted version. Unfortunately, I will not be able to share any ETA when we will release new docker images
Hi @Pawan Jain ,
Sounds good, is there any way we can monitor when you guys release new docker images? This is holding our launch so we would like to upgrade right away after they are released.