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PerBonomi
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9 years ago
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Correct Reply Count with API 2

Scenario: One Topic with two replies. First reply was, obviously, a reply to the OP. Second reply was a reply to the first reply.   Using the original API(/threads/id/<id>/replies/count) I get: ...
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    cike
    9 years ago

    PerBonomi VarunGrazitti Using APIv2 you could query for the message count of the whole conversation:

     

    SELECT conversation.messages_count FROM messages WHERE id = '<id>' AND depth = 0

    The conversation.messages_count includes the original post. To get the count of all replies only you could simply do something like

     

    <#assign true_reply_count = (messages_count?number - 1) />

     

    Kind regards,

    Christian

     

     

     

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cike
Champion
9 years ago

PerBonomi VarunGrazitti Using APIv2 you could query for the message count of the whole conversation:

 

SELECT conversation.messages_count FROM messages WHERE id = '<id>' AND depth = 0

The conversation.messages_count includes the original post. To get the count of all replies only you could simply do something like

 

<#assign true_reply_count = (messages_count?number - 1) />

 

Kind regards,

Christian