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Changing Group Owner

Feature Overview

The app admin can call this API to transfer the group ownership to others.
For a group without an owner, the app admin can call this API to specify a user as the owner of the group.
The new group owner must be a member of the group.

API Calling Description

Applicable group types

Group Type ID
RESTful API Support
Private
Yes. Same as work groups (Work) in the new version.
Public
Yes
ChatRoom
Yes. Same as the meeting group (Meeting) in the new version.
AVChatRoom
No (See the note below)
Community
Yes
These are the preset group types in Chat. For more information, see Group System.
Note
Audio-video groups (AVChatRoom) do not support the transfer of group ownership. If you call this API for such a group, error code 10007 will be returned.

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 following table describes the modified parameters when this API is called. For other parameters, see RESTful API Overview.
Parameter
Description
xxxxxx
Domain name corresponding to the country/region where your SDKAppID is located.
China: console.tim.qq.com
Singapore: adminapisgp.im.qcloud.com
Seoul: adminapikr.im.qcloud.com
Frankfurt: adminapiger.im.qcloud.com
Silicon Valley: adminapiusa.im.qcloud.com
Jakarta: adminapiidn.im.qcloud.com
v4/group_open_http_svc/change_group_owner
Request API
sdkappid
SDKAppID assigned by the Chat console when an app is created
identifier
App admin account. For more information, see the App Admin section in Login Authentication.
usersig
Signature generated by the app admin account. For details, see Generating UserSig.
random
A random 32-bit unsigned integer ranging from 0 to 4294967295.
contenttype
Request format. The value is fixed to json.

Maximum call frequency

200 calls per second

Sample request

Transfer the group ownership to another group member. The new group owner must be a member of the group.
{
    "GroupId": "@TGS#1NVTZEAE4",  // (Required) ID of the group whose ownership is to be transferred
    "NewOwner_Account": "peter" // (Required) ID of the new group owner
}

Request fields

Field
Type
Required
Description
GroupId
String
Yes
ID of the group whose ownership is to be transferred
NewOwner_Account
String
Yes
ID of the new group owner

Sample response

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

Response fields

Field
Type
Description
ActionStatus
String
Request result. OK: successful; FAIL: failed
ErrorCode
Integer
Error code. 0: Successful; other values: Failed
ErrorInfo
String
Error information

Error Codes

The returned HTTP status code for this API is always 200 unless a network error (such as error 502) occurs. The specific error code and details can be found in the response fields ErrorCode and ErrorInfo respectively. For public error codes (60000 to 79999), see Error Codes. The following table describes the error codes specific to this API:
Error Code
Description
10002
A system error occurred. Try again or contact technical support.
10004
A parameter is invalid. Check the ErrorInfo field in the response packet to see whether the required fields have been specified or whether the fields are set according to protocol requirements.
10007
Insufficient operation permissions. Check whether the operator is the app admin.
10010
The group does not exist or has been deleted.
10015
Invalid group ID. Check whether the group ID is entered correctly.

API Debugging Tool

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

References

Recalling group messages (v4/group_open_http_svc/group_msg_recall)