Is there a way to send private/direct messages to a user rather than a room?

[omehegan]

The subject says it all. I'd like to be able to send messages to an individual, rather than a room, because our rooms are getting polluted with notifications that only need to be seen by one person.

[aldaris]

I don't believe that this is possible, only users can send private messages to users. OAuth2 tokens issued to groups won't be able to do that. See https://www.hipchat.com/docs/apiv2/method/private_message_user

[omehegan]

My now-former coworker actually has a partially-complete pull request for the plugin which supports this. I've handed off the work to someone else, I hope to see it submitted pretty soon. It does require you to create a user and then create an API token for them with appropriate privileges.

[tomasbjerre]

You can do it with curl:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer oasdasdasdasdasdasdasdFm"  -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://hipchat.asdasdasdasd.se/v2/user/[email protected]/message -X POST -d '{"message": "hej", "notify": "true", "message_format": "text"}

Or in a pipeline you might want a method:

def hipchatPrivateMessage(steps, to, message) {
    def data = [
            message       : message,
            notify        : true,
            message_format: 'text'
    ]
    def json = JsonOutput.toJson(data)
    steps.sh """
    curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ofDC10yEHLR6jKdqGqZsJbgQ7RXP6tiyD95wvGFm"  -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://hipchat.dom.se/v2/user/$to/message -X POST -d '$json'
    """
}

Invoked like this:

hipchatPrivateMessage(this,"[email protected]","This is a message")