Message Platform Entities

LangBot supports multiple messaging platforms, and each platform has different message entity formats. To abstract away these differences, we have implemented a unified standard. Plugin developers only need to master and use the message entities described on this page in plugins, and LangBot’s internal message processing logic can automatically handle message parsing and conversion.

Message Chain

Messages on messaging platforms are different from messages used for AI interaction. Messages on messaging platforms are described in the form of message chains. Each independent message displayed on QQ is a message chain, which can contain various message chain components such as text, images, @mentions, etc. For example:

This is a message chain containing one Plain component (Hello World) and one Image component (Usagi). The definitions of message chains and message chain components are located in langbot_plugin.api.entities.builtin.platform.message.

Constructing Message Chains

Please first import the langbot_plugin.api.entities.builtin.platform.message package to use the message components within it.

from langbot_plugin.api.entities.builtin.platform.message import *

# Build a message containing text "Hello LangBot" and an image (from URL)
msg_chain = MessageChain([
    Plain(text="Hello LangBot"),
    Image(url='https://qchatgpt.rockchin.top/langbot-logo.png')
])

# Build a message containing @everyone and text "Hello LangBot"
msg_chain = MessageChain([
    AtAll(),
    Plain(text="Hello LangBot")
])

# Build a message containing @specific member and text "Hello LangBot"
msg_chain = MessageChain([
    At(target=123456),
    Plain(text="Hello LangBot")
])

Currently supported message chain components:

Source - Source message chain information. Messages received from messaging platforms will include this component at the front of the message chain to record message information
Plain - Plain text message
Quote - Quote message
Image - Image message
AtAll - @everyone message
At - @specific member message
Voice - Voice message
- Need to check messaging platform support
Forward - Forward message
- Not supported on many platforms, not recommended
File - File message

When creating components, named parameters must be used. For specific usage, you can check the definitions in the source code langbot_plugin.api.entities.builtin.platform.message.

Other Entities

In addition to the above entities, there are also entities like Friend and Group. These entities are defined in langbot_plugin.api.entities.platform.entities.

Accessing Underlying Platform APIs

Not applicable for 4.x.

To abstract away platform differences, LangBot provides an abstraction layer above messaging platform APIs, which includes the content described above and various platform adapters in the pkg/platform/sources directory. However, due to significant platform differences, the entity and API encapsulation in the abstraction layer is not complete. If your plugin needs to access platform-specific functionality, you can access underlying APIs according to the following instructions.

    # For example in a plugin
    @handler(GroupMessageReceived)
    async def _(self, ctx: EventContext):
        # Get adapter object
        adapter = ctx.query.adapter

Platform	Adapter	Access Method	Description
OneBot v11	aiocqhttp	adapter.bot	bot object corresponds to aiocqhttp CQHttp object, please refer to aiocqhttp documentation for detailed usage
QQ Official API	qqofficial	adapter.bot	bot object is the SDK object under libs/qq_official_api, for detailed usage please refer to the `send_group_text_msg` method in `QQOfficialClient` in libs/qq_official_api/api.py for HTTP request methods, please refer to QQ Official API documentation for specific interface documentation
WeCom (Enterprise WeChat)	wecom	adapter.bot	Refer to the `send_image` method in `WecomClient` in libs/wecom_api/api.py for HTTP request methods, please refer to WeCom API documentation for specific interface documentation
WeChat Official Account	officialaccount	-	Please refer to WeChat Official Account API documentation for interface documentation, credential information can be obtained from adapter.bot
Lark	lark	adapter.api_client	Lark SDK’s API Client object, please refer to oapi-sdk-python for details
DingTalk	dingtalk	-	Please refer to DingTalk API documentation, credential information can be obtained from adapter.bot
Discord	discord	adapter.bot	bot object is Rapptz/discord.py Discord object, please refer to documentation for detailed usage
Telegram	telegram	adapter.bot	bot object is python-telegram-bot Telegram object, please refer to documentation for detailed usage
Slack	slack	adapter.bot	bot object in libs/slack_api/api.py, please refer to its code and Slack SDK for detailed usage

Plugin Development

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Message Platform Entities

Message Chain

Constructing Message Chains

Other Entities

Accessing Underlying Platform APIs

​Message Chain

​Constructing Message Chains

​Other Entities

​Accessing Underlying Platform APIs

Message Chain

Constructing Message Chains

Other Entities

Accessing Underlying Platform APIs