getPreviousMessages

Get the previous messages that were sent to the room before the listener was subscribed.

If the client experiences a discontinuity event (i.e. the connection was lost and could not be resumed), the starting point of getPreviousMessages will be reset.

Calls to getPreviousMessages will wait for continuity to be restored before resolving.

Once continuity is restored, the subscription point will be set to the beginning of this new period of continuity. To ensure that no messages are missed, you should call getPreviousMessages after any period of discontinuity to fill any gaps in the message history.

val subscription = room.messages.subscribe {
    println("New message received: $it")
}
var historicalMessages = subscription.getPreviousMessages(limit = 50)
println(historicalMessages.items.toString())

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