docs-matrix-spec/content/client-server-api/modules/typing_notifications.md
Richard van der Hoff b07fe504ed
Stop rendering CS modules and room version fragments as standalone pages (#1317)
This is actually doing two things:

 * creating `{fragments,modules}/index.md` turns the fragments and modules into
   page resources, rather than pages in their own right. We have to update the
   shortcodes to match.

 * adding `headless: true` means that we don't render the pages.

The net effect is that we don't render pages like
https://spec.matrix.org/v1.4/rooms/fragments/v1-auth-rules/ and
https://spec.matrix.org/v1.4/client-server-api/modules/account_data/.
2022-11-08 17:27:44 +00:00

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Typing Notifications

Users may wish to be informed when another user is typing in a room. This can be achieved using typing notifications. These are ephemeral events, so they do not form part of the Event Graph. Typing notifications are scoped to a room.

Events

{{% event event="m.typing" %}}

Client behaviour

When a client receives an m.typing event, it MUST use the user ID list to REPLACE its knowledge of every user who is currently typing. The reason for this is that the server does not remember users who are not currently typing as that list gets big quickly. The client should mark as not typing any user ID who is not in that list.

It is recommended that clients store a boolean indicating whether the user is typing or not. Whilst this value is true a timer should fire periodically every N seconds to send a typing HTTP request. The value of N is recommended to be no more than 20-30 seconds. This request should be re-sent by the client to continue informing the server the user is still typing. As subsequent requests will replace older requests, a safety margin of 5 seconds before the expected timeout runs out is recommended. When the user stops typing, the state change of the boolean to false should trigger another HTTP request to inform the server that the user has stopped typing.

{{% http-api spec="client-server" api="typing" %}}

Security considerations

Clients may not wish to inform everyone in a room that they are typing and instead only specific users in the room.