Merge pull request #383 from rgarmsen2295/mm-1584b

MM-1584 Private message channels no longer do a page refresh on creation/first use

web/react/utils/client.jsx

@@ -438,6 +438,23 @@ module.exports.createChannel = function(channel, success, error) {
     module.exports.track('api', 'api_channels_create', channel.type, 'name', channel.name);
 };
 
+module.exports.createDirectChannel = function(channel, userId, success, error) {
+    $.ajax({
+        url: '/api/v1/channels/create_direct',
+        dataType: 'json',
+        contentType: 'application/json',
+        type: 'POST',
+        data: JSON.stringify({user_id: userId}),
+        success: success,
+        error: function(xhr, status, err) {
+            var e = handleError('createDirectChannel', xhr, status, err);
+            error(e);
+        }
+    });
+
+    module.exports.track('api', 'api_channels_create_direct', channel.type, 'name', channel.name);
+};
+
 module.exports.updateChannel = function(channel, success, error) {
     $.ajax({
         url: "/api/v1/channels/update",

web/react/utils/utils.jsx

@@ -968,4 +968,17 @@ module.exports.generateId = function() {
 
 module.exports.isBrowserFirefox = function() {
     return navigator && navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('firefox') > -1;
-}
+};
+
+// Used to get the id of the other user from a DM channel
+module.exports.getUserIdFromChannelName = function(channel) {
+    var ids = channel.name.split('__');
+    var otherUserId = '';
+    if (ids[0] === UserStore.getCurrentId()) {
+        otherUserId = ids[1];
+    } else {
+        otherUserId = ids[0];
+    }
+
+    return otherUserId;
+};