Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Allow plugins to delete messages

Open
#7 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go

Research direction

Start at the plugin API's SendMessage entry point and review how plugins currently address messages. Compare the requested individual-message and application-wide deletion behavior with gotify/server issue #266, then define the message ID and deletion semantics that both sides must support before implementation. Done means the API contract clearly covers both deletion scopes.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Allowing plugins to either delete individual messages or all messages of their respective application would add significant flexibility.

To be able to delete individual messages the SendMessage would also have to return some kind of message ID, so that the plugin knows which message to delete.

Together with https://github.com/gotify/server/issues/266 this could be utilized so that a plugin can discard a message on all connected clients given some certain event.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
16
Forks
4
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from gotify/plugin-api

All issues in gotify/plugin-api

Similar issues

More Go issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.