Method: spaces.setup

Creates a space and adds specified users to it. The calling user is automatically added to the space, and shouldn't be specified as a membership in the request. For an example, see Set up a space with initial members.

To specify the human members to add, add memberships with the appropriate membership.member.name. To add a human user, use users/{user}, where {user} can be the email address for the user. For users in the same Workspace organization {user} can also be the id for the person from the People API, or the id for the user in the Directory API. For example, if the People API Person profile ID for user@example.com is 123456789, you can add the user to the space by setting the membership.member.name to users/user@example.com or users/123456789.

To specify the Google groups to add, add memberships with the appropriate membership.group_member.name. To add or invite a Google group, use groups/{group}, where {group} is the id for the group from the Cloud Identity Groups API. For example, you can use Cloud Identity Groups lookup API to retrieve the ID 123456789 for group email group@example.com, then you can add the group to the space by setting the membership.group_member.name to groups/123456789. Group email is not supported, and Google groups can only be added as members in named spaces.

For a named space or group chat, if the caller blocks, or is blocked by some members, or doesn't have permission to add some members, then those members aren't added to the created space.

To create a direct message (DM) between the calling user and another human user, specify exactly one membership to represent the human user. If one user blocks the other, the request fails and the DM isn't created.

To create a DM between the calling user and the calling app, set Space.singleUserBotDm to true and don't specify any memberships. You can only use this method to set up a DM with the calling app. To add the calling app as a member of a space or an existing DM between two human users, see Invite or add a user or app to a space.

If a DM already exists between two users, even when one user blocks the other at the time a request is made, then the existing DM is returned.

Spaces with threaded replies aren't supported. If you receive the error message ALREADY_EXISTS when setting up a space, try a different displayName. An existing space within the Google Workspace organization might already use this display name.

Requires user authentication.

HTTP request

POST https://chat.googleapis.com/v1/spaces:setup

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "space": {
    object (Space)
  },
  "requestId": string,
  "memberships": [
    {
      object (Membership)
    }
  ]
}
Fields
space

object (Space)

Required. The Space.spaceType field is required.

To create a space, set Space.spaceType to SPACE and set Space.displayName. If you receive the error message ALREADY_EXISTS when setting up a space, try a different displayName. An existing space within the Google Workspace organization might already use this display name.

To create a group chat, set Space.spaceType to GROUP_CHAT. Don't set Space.displayName.

To create a 1:1 conversation between humans, set Space.spaceType to DIRECT_MESSAGE and set Space.singleUserBotDm to false. Don't set Space.displayName or Space.spaceDetails.

To create an 1:1 conversation between a human and the calling Chat app, set Space.spaceType to DIRECT_MESSAGE and Space.singleUserBotDm to true. Don't set Space.displayName or Space.spaceDetails.

If a DIRECT_MESSAGE space already exists, that space is returned instead of creating a new space.
requestId

string

Optional. A unique identifier for this request. A random UUID is recommended. Specifying an existing request ID returns the space created with that ID instead of creating a new space. Specifying an existing request ID from the same Chat app with a different authenticated user returns an error.
memberships[]

object (Membership)

Optional. The Google Chat users or groups to invite to join the space. Omit the calling user, as they are added automatically.

The set currently allows up to 20 memberships (in addition to the caller).

For human membership, the Membership.member field must contain a user with name populated (format: users/{user}) and type set to User.Type.HUMAN. You can only add human users when setting up a space (adding Chat apps is only supported for direct message setup with the calling app). You can also add members using the user's email as an alias for {user}. For example, the user.name can be users/example@gmail.com. To invite Gmail users or users from external Google Workspace domains, user's email must be used for {user}.

For Google group membership, the Membership.group_member field must contain a group with name populated (format groups/{group}). You can only add Google groups when setting Space.spaceType to SPACE.

Optional when setting Space.spaceType to SPACE.

Required when setting Space.spaceType to GROUP_CHAT, along with at least two memberships.

Required when setting Space.spaceType to DIRECT_MESSAGE with a human user, along with exactly one membership.

Must be empty when creating a 1:1 conversation between a human and the calling Chat app (when setting Space.spaceType to DIRECT_MESSAGE and Space.singleUserBotDm to true).

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Space.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces.create

For more information, see the Authorization guide.