REST: Authentication ticket

Even though I was unable to get the authentication via api, I have instead just used jquery to look at existing links on the page and get that authentication ticket from that instead. Bit of a dirty hack but it does what I need it to do.

For anyone interested, I have editted the unreadposts page by adding these two components to the unreadpage quilt:

<component id="category.widget.mark-new"/>
<component id="category.widget.mark-read"/>

And then I created a custom component and added it to that page:

<#if !user.anonymous>
<@liaAddScript>
;(function($) {

    var url = ($('.mark-community-read-link').attr('href'));
    var ticket = getURLParameter(url, 'ticket');
    var actionMenuDropDown = $('#actionMenuDropDown .lia-menu-dropdown-items');
    var buttonSeperator = '<li aria-hidden="true"><span class="lia-separator lia-component-common-widget-link-separator"><span class="lia-separator-post"></span><span class="lia-separator-pre"></span></span></li>';
    var pathname = window.location.pathname;

    function getURLParameter(url, name) {
        return (RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(url)||[,null])[1];
    }

    if($('body').hasClass('lia-board')){
        var buttonMarkRead = '<li><a id="boardMarkRead" class="lia-link-navigation mark-board-read-link lia-component-board-widget-mark-read" href="/t5/forums/forumpage.markread/board-id/${coreNode.id}?t:ac=board-id/${coreNode.id}/tab/message&t:cp=boards/contributions/markedactions&ticket=' + ticket + '">Mark all posts in this Board as Read</a></li>';
        var buttonMarkNew = '<li><a id="boardMarkNew" class="lia-link-navigation mark-category-read-link lia-component-category-widget-mark-read" href="/t5/forums/forumpage.marknew/board-id/${coreNode.id}?t:ac=board-id/${coreNode.id}/tab/message&t:cp=boards/contributions/markedactions&ticket=' + ticket + '">Mark all Posts in this Board as New</a></li>';
        $(actionMenuDropDown)
            .append(buttonSeperator)
            .append(buttonMarkNew)
            .append(buttonMarkRead);

        if ($('.lia-panel-status-banner-note').length){
            $('#boardMarkRead').addClass('lia-link-disabled').removeAttr('href');
        };

    } else {
        if ($('.lia-component-category-widget-mark-read').length){
            var categoryMarkRead = $('.lia-component-category-widget-mark-read');
            var categoryMarkNew = $('.lia-component-category-widget-mark-new');
            var buttonMarkRead = '<li>'+ $(categoryMarkRead).outerHTML() +'</li>';
            var buttonMarkNew = '<li>'+ $(categoryMarkNew).outerHTML() +'</li>';

            $(actionMenuDropDown)
                .append(buttonSeperator)
                .append(buttonMarkNew)
                .append(buttonMarkRead);

            categoryMarkRead.remove();
            categoryMarkNew.remove();
            
            if ($('.lia-panel-status-banner-note').length){
                $('#categoryMarkRead').addClass('lia-link-disabled').removeAttr('href');
            };

        }
    };

    if ($('.lia-panel-status-banner-note').length && (pathname == '/t5/forums/unreadpostspage/tab/message' || pathname == '/t5/forums/unreadpostspage/tab/thread')){
        $('#communityMarkRead').addClass('lia-link-disabled').removeAttr('href');
    };

})(LITHIUM.jQuery);
</@liaAddScript>
</#if>

And what you end up with is this on community, category and board level:

There is probably a much better way of doing this but this works for me. I could probably do the IF statement a bit more elegantly by using the API to detect the page type (board, category or community level) but I'm unsure how to do that.