Add Friend using friend request with accept/decline option

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I was learning to make friends in Unity using PlayFab and i wanted to do it with a friend request confuimation. I have seen many community posts but i found that they all are posted long time ago. I wanted to know whether any such feature has been added or not else is there any other way to do it, if any please explain it with an example code as I am new too coding and PlayFab and I believe that PlayFab community is highly responsive with valuable answers. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Currently adding friends in PlayFab is a one way process. Players can add other players to their own friend list without the needs of other players’ confirmation.

There is a workaround to implement two-way friend confirmation with Cloud Script:

Player 1 selects to send a friend request to Player 2
Use AddFriend on both players, setting each in the other player's friend list
Use SetFriendTags on both players, to tag the players uniquely ("requester"/"requestee", or similar)
Title uses Push Notification (via Cloud Script) and/or Photon Chat to send notification to the other player
A CloudScript example of above is:

handlers.SendFriendRequest
      = function(args, context){ 
      server.AddFriend( 
      { 
      PlayFabId: currentPlayerId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId 
      }); 
      server.SetFriendTags({ PlayFabId:
      currentPlayerId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      Tags: ["requestee"] 
      }); server.AddFriend( 
      { 
      PlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: currentPlayerId 
      }); 
      server.SetFriendTags( 
      { 
      PlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: currentPlayerId, 
      Tags: ["requester"] 
      }); server.SendPushNotification({ 
      Recipient: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      Message: "Nice to meet you" 
      });}

Player 2 sees the Push, or the Chat, or finds the friend request upon login (using GetFriendsList, checking for the "requester" tag)

Player 2 accepts or declines the friend request

If Player 2 accepts, either remove the tags from both players or set them to something like "confirmed", a CloudScript example is:

handlers.AcceptFriendRequest
      = function(args, context){ 
      server.SetFriendTags({ PlayFabId:
      currentPlayerId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      Tags: ["confirmed"] 
      }); 
      server.SetFriendTags( 
      { 
      PlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: currentPlayerId, 
      Tags: ["confirmed"] 
      });}

If Player 2 declines, remove each player from the other player's friend list, a CloudScript example is:

handlers.DenyFriendRequest
      = function(args,context){ server.RemoveFriend({ PlayFabId:
      currentPlayerId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      }); 
      server.RemoveFriend( 
      { 
      PlayFabId: args.FriendPlayFabId, 
      FriendPlayFabId: currentPlayerId, 
      });}

Please refer to this thread: https://community.playfab.com/questions/370/206712537-Two-way-friend-confirmation-with-Cloud-Script.html

If you are not familiar with Cloud Script, please go through this document: CloudScript quickstart

Add Friend using friend request with accept/decline option

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