Custom Parameters on ChatRoom messages - quickblox

Question

I am looking to display usernames alongside messages in a chatroom using quickblox. I was hoping to simply embed the sender name in the custom parameters of the message but the params never make it through to my chatroomDidRecieveMessage.
I copied the code from the example with no luck.
[message setCustomParameters:#{#"playSound": #YES}];
Also, can't seem to find a pattern in the senderID/recipientID that can go along with the message. So questions is, what is the best option for getting the sender data when a message is received?
Working on iOS...

Answer 1

Better way is to incapsulate all sender's info into JSON, for example, let's send user's location in message:
#define kLatitude #"latitude"
#define kLongitude #"longitude"
#define kMessage #"message"
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[dict setObject:#"12.23423424" forKey:kLatitude];
[dict setObject:#"-2.13123333" forKey:kLongitude];
[dict setValue:#"Hello, this is my location" forKey:kMessage];
// to JSON:
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* nsdata = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:dict options:NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted error:&error];
// send message
NSString* jsonString =[[NSString alloc] initWithData:nsdata encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[[QBChat instance] sendMessage:jsonString toRoom:self.currentRoom];
And receive message:
-(void)chatRoomDidReceiveMessage:(QBChatMessage *)message fromRoom:(NSString *)roomName{
// JSON parsing
NSData *data = [message.text dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSDictionary *jsonDict = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:nil];
NSString *message = [jsonDict objectForKey:kMessage];
NSString *latitude = [jsonDict objectForKey:kLatitude];
NSString *longitude = [jsonDict objectForKey:kLongitude];
}