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bdelaune
Contributor
12 years ago

Rest API search to Discussion Style

Hi. I'm working on a project where the client would like to be able to search the community (this is very easy with the REST API.  From there, within their current application, they would like to vie...
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AdamN
Khoros Oracle
12 years ago

Hi bdelaune,

 

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're looking for. Are you just wanting to page through the results of the "/restapi/thread/[id]/messages/linear" call? If so, that call should accept the "page" and "page_size" parameters. So for example if you wanted to get 50 messages at a time:

/restapi/thread/[id]/messages/linear?page_size=50&page=1

/restapi/thread/[id]/messages/linear?page_size=50&page=2

/restapi/thread/[id]/messages/linear?page_size=50&page=3

...

 

If you were looking for something different, could you please try to explain more?

  • bdelaune_hp's avatar
    bdelaune_hp
    Contributor
    11 years ago

    Thanks for your help, but let me clarify what I am asking.

     

    We are utilizing the Community/Search/Messages api to get back a list of search results.  When someone searches on the website and click on a link, it not only takes them to a linear version of the thread, but it also directs them to the correct page of the thread in order to view the message that matched their search results.

     

    We are attempting to replicate this functionality within a tool on an internal system.  Ideally, when a user clicks on one of the search results, they are directed to a page that renders a linear view of the thread and brings them directly to the page they need to be on to view the message that matched their search.  As far as I can tell, there is no programmatic way to determine which number a message is in the linear view of a thread.  That is what we need.

    • nathan's avatar
      nathan
      Executive
      11 years ago

      If you include the parameter restapi.response_style=view in the REST API URL, the results will include the URL for each message returned in the results.

       

      For example, if you search Lithosphere:

      http://lithosphere.lithium.com/restapi/vc/search/messages?q=test&restapi.response_style=view

       

      The first message tag looks like this:

      <message type="message" href="/messages/id/129079" view_href="http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/developers-discussion/Test-messages/m-p/129079#M4947">

       

      The view_href URL should take you straight to the message, whichever page it is on.

       

      • bdelaune_hp's avatar
        bdelaune_hp
        Contributor
        11 years ago

        Thanks, Nathan, and we are aware of this functionality, but we need the ability to show the thread within our tool without linking out to the website.  The case we are using it in will not allow the users to actually go to the website (it is blocked on their machines).  We need to replicate the same functionality as that view_href link within our own tool.

         

        Does that make sense?