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iahiqosolutions's avatar
iahiqosolutions
Advisor
12 years ago

REST API: Retrieve user latest messages only for selected category or board

Hello folks,   My question is: How to I can retrieve user latest messages only for selected category or board using Lithium REST API?   I found the following REST API method: users/id/%John_Doe%...
AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle

My suggestion would be to do a message search via the REST API. If you're not familiar with using our message search REST API, a great way to get started is by using the message search in the UI. From that, you can figure out the parameters you'd like to work with. For example, here's how to get a list of messages that you've posted in the Developer board here on the Lithosphere:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/restapi/vc/search/messages?location=Board%3Astudio&author_id=12780

 

I determined these parameters and sample values by going to the search page and modifying the filters on the left side until I got what I was looking for. For example:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?location=Board%253Astudio&author_id=12780

 

I hope this helps!

jc758's avatar
jc758
Advisor
11 years ago

Hi !

 

i know it is an old topic, but i'd like to do the same thing: retreive messages from an author on a particular blog.

 

 

The problem with ?location=blog-board%3Atest-blog&author_id=5  is that my rest response is empty.
I need to add the q parameter to make the results appear...

Moreover, ,n the standard search page result, whereas leaving the search box empty in the Lithosphere return all posts by default, in our community we get the error "Empty search query. Please enter one or more keywords and try again."

 

Thus this rest call which works perfectly here:

http://community.lithium.com/restapi/vc/search/messages?location=Board%3Astudio&author_id=12780

 

would failed on our side.

 

Is there a param in the admin to specify that the search query can be empty?

If not , is there a wildcard i can set in the url for the q param?

 

Regards

 

JC

 

    • jc758's avatar
      jc758
      Advisor
      11 years ago

      Hi ,

       

      thanx for the reply, but i've got no problem with the location (but you're syntax is better than the other ;) )....

       

      My problem is that i've got no result if i don't specify the q parameter :

       

      search/messages?q=test&board_id=blog-dev&author_id=5&restapi.response_style=view

      will return results

       

      search/messages?board_id=blog-dev&author_id=5&restapi.response_style=view

      return an empty response :

      <response status="success">
<messages/>
</response>

       regards

      JC

       

       

       

      • samudhraa's avatar
        samudhraa
        Expert
        11 years ago

        Hi jc758,

         

        If you want to get only the root topic messages (and you do not want the comments ) , you can add this value for q

        search/messages?q=is_root:true&board_id=blog-dev&author_id=5&restapi.response_style=view

         

         

        This would include only the root message , and would also serve as a value to the "q" parameter , while including all posts.

         

        Hope that helps.

         

        Thanks,

        Sam