Presence Reference #

Presence SDK #

The table below contains a list of the SDK methods relevant to the presence feature. These methods are available via the PresenceApi.

Call	description
`Initialize`	Initializes the Presence API. Required to use the Presence SDK functions.
`SetAsOnline`	Appears as “online” to friends in the game instance
`SetAsAway`	Appears as “away” to friends in the game instance
`SetRichPresence`	Sets rich presence
`SetPresence`	Sets basic presence and rich presence at the same time
`GetPresenceCache`	Retrieves presence status for current player
`ForceSync`	Forcibly synchronizes the player client PresenceApi with the presence information in the Pragma Engine backend

The Presence Plugin #

The Presence Plugin provides a location for developers to implement custom presence functionality, such as handling the rich presence ext. The Presence Tasks topic shows example usage of the Presence Plugin methods, along with the SDKs that invoke them.

Presence class #

property	description
`socialId`	Unique social identifier for the player (game agnostic)
`playerId`	Unique player ID
`gameShardId`	Unique identifier of the game shard associated with this presence object
`gameTitleId`	Title of the game associated with the gameShardId. See Game Title Management in the Portal documentation for more information of game shard/game title mapping.
`basicPresence`	`BasicPresence` object representing whether the user appears “online” or “away”. See following table.
`ext`	Custom `ExtRichPresence` payload containing custom data to display to friends

Basic presence enum #

property	description
`online`	User’s presence status is “online”
`away`	User’s presence status is “away”

Extension data #

You can use Extension Data (exts) to define custom data about player presence statuses. See Presence Tasks for sample implementation.

The following table lists the ext payloads relevant to presence information.

`ext`	description	example data
`ExtRichPresencePlayerRequest`	Custom presence values set/updated by the player client	custom away message
`ExtRichPresenceBackendRequest`	Custom presence values set/updated by the game server	current score

Configuration #

The FriendsServiceConfig configuration block provides a place to define default values for the Friend and Presence services.

The following configuration values are related to Presence features:

config	description
`enablePresenceUpdates`	Enable or disable ability to update presence statuses. If `false`, a player’s basic and rich presences cannot be updated. The Presence API’s `GetPresence` method is still available and will return presence values (if any) at the time `enablePresenceUpdates` was set to `false`. Default: true

See Friend Reference for information on other configuration values.

Events #

The following events are related to the Presence feature.

To optimize server-load management, Pragma engine only sends Presence-related events to friends who are online.

Event	Trigger	Data returned
`OnPresenceChanged`	Your presence status changes	the new Presence
`OnFriendUpdated`	A friend’s presence status changes	Friend
`OnFriendListChanged`	A friend is added or removed from your list, or a friend’s presence status changes	Friend

If Pragma Engine detects an OnFriendUpdated event was missed due to network issues, the entire friend list is fetched again. Older OnFriendUpdated notifications are ignored.

Errors #

Presence_GameIdentityNotFound
Presence_PresenceNotFound