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Message - Amazon Q Business

Message

A message in an Amazon Q Business web experience.

Contents

actionExecution

Performs an Amazon Q Business plugin action during a non-streaming chat conversation.

Type: ActionExecution object

Required: No

actionReview

An output event that Amazon Q Business returns to an user who wants to perform a plugin action during a non-streaming chat conversation. It contains information about the selected action with a list of possible user input fields, some pre-populated by Amazon Q Business.

Type: ActionReview object

Required: No

attachments

A file directly uploaded into an Amazon Q Business web experience chat.

Type: Array of AttachmentOutput objects

Required: No

body

The content of the Amazon Q Business web experience message.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: \P{C}*$}

Required: No

messageId

The identifier of the Amazon Q Business web experience message.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: No

sourceAttribution

The source documents used to generate Amazon Q Business web experience message.

Type: Array of SourceAttribution objects

Required: No

time

The timestamp of the first Amazon Q Business web experience message.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

type

The type of Amazon Q Business message, whether HUMAN or AI generated.

Type: String

Valid Values: USER | SYSTEM

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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