Package nl.dannyj.mistral.models.completion.message

Class ChatMessage

java.lang.Object

nl.dannyj.mistral.models.completion.message.ChatMessage

Direct Known Subclasses:

AssistantMessage, SystemMessage, ToolMessage, UserMessage

public abstract class ChatMessage
extends Object

Represents a single message in a chat conversation, serving as the base for different message types (system, user, assistant, tool). This class uses Jackson polymorphism based on the 'role' property found in the JSON.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected List<ContentChunk>	content	The content of the message.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	ChatMessage()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
List<ContentChunk>	getContent()	The content of the message.
abstract MessageRole	getRole()	Gets the role of the message sender (e.g., system, user, assistant).
String	getTextContent()	Gets the text content of the message.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

content

@Nullable
protected List<ContentChunk> content

The content of the message. Can be null or a list of content chunks.

Constructor Details

ChatMessage

protected ChatMessage()

Method Details

getRole

public abstract MessageRole getRole()

Gets the role of the message sender (e.g., system, user, assistant). Subclasses must implement this to provide their specific role.

Returns:

The role of the message.

getTextContent

@Nullable
public String getTextContent()

Gets the text content of the message. This is a convenience method that extracts the text from all TextChunks, ignoring other types of content.

Returns:

The concatenated text content of the message, or null if no text content is present.

getContent

@Nullable
public List<ContentChunk> getContent()

The content of the message. Can be null or a list of content chunks.

Returns:

The list of content chunks, or null.