Feature Description

• This API is used by the app admin to transfer the ownership of a group.
• For groups that do not have a group owner, an app admin can use this API to specify a member as the group owner.
• The new group owner must be a member of the group.

API Calling Description

Applicable group types

These are the 4 built-in group types in IM. For detailed information, see the Group System.

Note：

AVChatRooms (livestreaming groups) do not support transferring group ownership. Error 10007 will be returned if this operation is performed on a group of this type.

Sample request URL

https://xxxxxx/v4/group_open_http_svc/change_group_owner?sdkappid=88888888&identifier=admin&usersig=xxx&random=99999999&contenttype=json

Request parameters

The list below contains only the parameters commonly used when calling this API and their descriptions. For more parameters, see RESTful API Overview.

Maximum calling frequency

The maximum calling frequency is 200 calls per second.

Sample request packet

In this example, the ownership of a group is transferred, and the new owner of the group after the transfer must be a member of the group.

{
   "GroupId": "@TGS#1NVTZEAE4",  // ID of the group to be transferred (required)
   "NewOwner_Account": "peter" // ID of the new group owner (required)
}

Request packet fields

Sample response packet body

{
  "ActionStatus": "OK",
  "ErrorInfo": "",
  "ErrorCode": 0
}

Response packet fields

Error Codes

Unless a network error (such as error 502) occurs, the returned HTTP status code for this API is always 200. The specific error code and details can be found in the response packet fields such as ErrorCode and ErrorInfo.
For public error codes (60000 to 79999), see Error Codes.
The list below contains error codes specific to this API:

API Debugging Tool

Use the online debugging tool for RESTful APIs to debug this API.

Reference

Recalling group messages (v4/group_open_http_svc/group_msg_recall)