Get topic messages

Subscribe to a topic ID's messages from a mirror node. You will receive all messages for the specified topic or within the defined start and end time.

Query Fees

• Please see the transaction and query fees table for the base transaction fee

• Please use the Hedera fee estimator to estimate your query fee cost

Methods

Method	Type	Description	Requirement
setTopicId(<topicId>)	TopicId	The topic ID to subscribe to	Required
setStartTime(<startTime>)	Instant	The time to start subscribing to a topic's messages	Optional
setEndTime(<endTime>)	Instant	The time to stop subscribing to a topic's messages	Optional
setLimit(<limit>)	long	The number of messages to return	Optional
subscribe(<client, onNext)	SubscriptionHandle	Client, Consumer<TopicMessage>	Required

Java

//Create the query
new TopicMessageQuery()
    .setTopicId(newTopicId)
    .subscribe(client, topicMessage -> {
        System.out.println("at " + topicMessage.consensusTimestamp + " ( seq = " + topicMessage.sequenceNumber + " ) received topic message of " + topicMessage.contents.length + " bytes");
    });

//v2.0.0

JavaScript

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