A window centred on a sequence, for opening a permalink to an old message. Paging backwards from the tail to reach something linked from months ago would be many round trips, which is the entire reason this is a separate method rather than a parameter.
Parameters
Output
Encoding
application/jsonErrors
ChannelNotFound
ChannelForbidden
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{
"type": "query",
"errors": [
{
"name": "ChannelNotFound"
},
{
"name": "ChannelForbidden"
}
],
"output": {
"schema": {
"ref": "chat.yakka.defs#timelinePage",
"type": "ref"
},
"encoding": "application/json"
},
"parameters": {
"type": "params",
"required": [
"channel",
"seq"
],
"properties": {
"seq": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"description": "The sequence to centre on. It need not still exist — a deleted message keeps its sequence (ADR 0010), so a permalink to one still lands in the right place."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 50,
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 1
},
"channel": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"description": "A window centred on a sequence, for opening a permalink to an old message. Paging backwards from the tail to reach something linked from months ago would be many round trips, which is the entire reason this is a separate method rather than a parameter."
}