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Han's avatar
Han
Ace
6 years ago

Get all latest posts for a user

Hi all, I'd like to create a custom "latest contributions" component for profile pages. I'm trying to select all latest posts for a user with API V2.  At the moment, I'm always getting the same...
  • luk's avatar
    luk
    6 years ago

     

    Now we are talking freemarker which of course changes things =)... So with the code from Parshant it would be clear why you get always the same result, because you're asking for the last 10 topics of the currently logged in user, e.g. yourself (which is what ${user.id} will give you), I think what would be correct for your scenario is the page.context.user context-object which according to the docs (here) state:

    If this page is associated with a user, then this returns a user context object, otherwise returns null. You can chain calls on the user object from this method. The following pages return a user:
    - MyProfilePage (only when an admin is editing another user's profile. When the current user is editing their profile use the $user object instead)
    - ViewProfilePage
    - MobileViewProfilePage
    - TkbUserContributedArticlesPage

    I assume you're targeting the "ViewProfilePage" quilt with  your custom component,it would work as follows with your query:

    SELECT * FROM messages WHERE depth = 0 AND author.id = '${page.context.user.id}' ORDER BY conversation.last_post_time DESC LIMIT 10

    BUT, careful, as the docs say, if this component was placed on a page with no user context, your query would fail, therefore I'd check if page.context.user exists before setting off the API request, e.g.

    <#if (page.context.user)?has_content>
    // whatever you want to do here
</#if>

    hope that helps!

luk's avatar
luk
Boss
6 years ago

Han not sure what's going wrong, but your query seems to work for me, e.g.

SELECT * FROM messages WHERE depth = 0 AND author.id = '3' ORDER BY conversation.last_post_time DESC LIMIT 10

// and

SELECT * FROM messages WHERE depth = 0 AND author.id = '8' ORDER BY conversation.last_post_time DESC LIMIT 10

return

a) 10 results (not 5) and

b) different results for both queries

  • Parshant's avatar
    Parshant
    Boss
    6 years ago

    Hi Han,

    Can you try copy and paste using below api again.

    SELECT * FROM messages WHERE depth = 0 AND author.id = '${user.id}' ORDER BY conversation.last_post_time DESC LIMIT 10

     Let me know the response on this.

    • luk's avatar
      luk
      Boss
      6 years ago

       

      Now we are talking freemarker which of course changes things =)... So with the code from Parshant it would be clear why you get always the same result, because you're asking for the last 10 topics of the currently logged in user, e.g. yourself (which is what ${user.id} will give you), I think what would be correct for your scenario is the page.context.user context-object which according to the docs (here) state:

      If this page is associated with a user, then this returns a user context object, otherwise returns null. You can chain calls on the user object from this method. The following pages return a user:
      - MyProfilePage (only when an admin is editing another user's profile. When the current user is editing their profile use the $user object instead)
      - ViewProfilePage
      - MobileViewProfilePage
      - TkbUserContributedArticlesPage

      I assume you're targeting the "ViewProfilePage" quilt with  your custom component,it would work as follows with your query:

      SELECT * FROM messages WHERE depth = 0 AND author.id = '${page.context.user.id}' ORDER BY conversation.last_post_time DESC LIMIT 10

      BUT, careful, as the docs say, if this component was placed on a page with no user context, your query would fail, therefore I'd check if page.context.user exists before setting off the API request, e.g.

      <#if (page.context.user)?has_content>
    // whatever you want to do here
</#if>

      hope that helps!

      • Han's avatar
        Han
        Ace
        6 years ago

        Thanks luk, it was the way I was getting the user id and not the query itself. I now get the right results when looking at another users page.

        However, it's not displaying more than 5 results for my own profile, and not getting the latest posts I've made. Do you by any chance know why that might be happening?