Need some API

I think there's existing ways to cover off what your looking for bhupen .

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bhupen wrote:

2. Allow the user to Create a Conversation / New Thread with all the normal thread creation functionality (adding links, @mentions, inserting youtubelinks, etc)
Remarks: API Required

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You can create posts using the API: http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-API/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Message.reply#Message.reply

If you do this via a custom page or a custom component you can use TinyMCE to create the same text editor the lithium page loads.

The only functionality you'd be missing is @mention , lithium will need to advise if that's going to be available as an API.

You should be able to use the same call for points 2 and 3.

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bhupen wrote:

4. Support pagination to continue to browser more topics
Remarks: API Required

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Pagination is supported by a custom component, or when making calls to API version 1 or 2 you can specify to start further into the list.

The only caveat is with custom pages, the default pagination components break due to how they interact with the URL. You can always code your own as a custom component to read the page number from the URL.

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bhupen wrote:

5. Display threads in the same way as seen on the PS General board in which threads are displayed chronologically from latest to earliest.
Remarks: API Required

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If you want to replace the existing component for the forum pages with your own you can do anything you like with the data to display the pages. order them by latest reply, thread creation date, kudos etc

http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-API-v2/Message-resource/ta-p/113091

eg the default view would do a query like this:

SELECT * FROM messages WHERE board.id = 'wireless_support' order by conversation.last_post_time DESC

 But you could order them by post date like this:

SELECT * FROM messages WHERE board.id = 'wireless_support' order by conversation.post_time DESC

 Or simpler:

SELECT * FROM messages WHERE board.id = 'wireless_support' order by topic.id ASC

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bhupen wrote:

6. Display all other information that is shown on the PS General board (Replies, Author Name, Likes, Latest Post Info
Remarks:

API for reply:
messages/id/149/reply

API for author:
restapi/vc/messages/id/149/author

API for Likes:
restapi/vc/messages/id/149/kudos/count

API for Latest Post:
/restapi/vc/threads/recent

 

Correct me If i put wrong api on point 6.

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You've got it for point 6, but as soon as you make the move to a community version which supports API V2, you can get all of that and more.

In a single query pull back XML for the post subject and body, reply count, kudos and views, any tags, embedded images.