How can I extract latest topics across all forums inside a category page

rupamkhaitan - you need to add /nested at the end, it will pull all the boards nested inside the top category for which you are making the call

http://community.lithium.com/community-name/restapi/vc/categories/id/[id] /boards/nested

I tried that but it doesnt give me all the threads inside each forum page for one category page.

For eg: I have one category page with ID : cat1

            Inside this category i create four forum with ID: F1, F2, F3, F4

Now i want all the latest topic to be pulled from each forum in one component, i have achieved this by looping through each forum and rendering the HTMl, but i was wondering if there is any straight forward way with one URL which gives the consolidated information.

There is a built-in component in lithium saying 'Latest Topic' which does what i am looking for, but thats the built component and I want a custom component with similar feature.

Putting /nested in the URL is not giving me all the threads for each forum.

please help

Hi,

I believe this rest api should work for you :

/restapi/vc/categories/id/{category_id}/topics/recent

Thanks,

Sunny

this doesnt work because we have sub-category inside each category.

And each sub-category has forum pages.

Under each forum page we have threads/messages

And i want to get all the messages/threads from each forum under each sub-category.

The only way I could achieve this is by looping

<#list rest("/categories/id/{CATEGORY_ID}").category.categories.category as category>

<#list rest("/categories/id/{CATEGORY_ID}/${category.@href}").category.boards.board as board>

<#assign threads = rest("/categories/id/knowledgebase/${category.@href}/${board.@href}/threads/>

</#list>
</#list>

So now my threads variable has all the data for each forum under each sub-category.

Cheers

Rupam

thanks this works