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# Action Entity

> Action Entity — CometChat documentation.

Base class for defining the type of actions that can be performed on `BaseInteractiveElement`

Various types of Actions:

| Action         | Description                                                                                          | Key           |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| API Action     | To perform Post, PUT , DELETE, PATCH type of API actions on the user-defined APIs with given payload | apiAction     |
| URL Navigation | To open any defined action on given url                                                              | urlNavigation |
| Custom Action  | To set custom action on front end                                                                    | customAction  |

**API Action**

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Dart">
    ```dart theme={null}
    APIAction(
        url: url,//Replace this with the required url
        method: APIRequestTypeConstants.post,//replace this with the type of method
        dataKey: "cometchatData",//replace this with the key , if you want to replace the key oin which all the data for form will be sent
        headers: header,//set the header for the request
        payload: payload//set the payloaf forn the request
    )
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

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**URL Navigation**

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Dart">
    ```dart theme={null}
    URLNavigationAction( url: "https://www.cometchat.com/") // Replace this with the required url
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>