REST: Get current node's category

Hi Claudius,

There are a couple possible approaches...

To get the category for a a message, you can do something like:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/restapi/vc/messages/id/42810/board/category

This works because "/messages/id/42810" returns a Message object. Since this gives you a Message object, you can call the "board" method by simply appending "/board". This returns a Board object, on which you can call the "category" method by appending "/category".

If you want to go the freemarker route insted, you're on the right track. The problem you're running into is that coreNode.ancestors actually gives you a sequence of objects (nodes), so you can't output it directly. Check out this post I created awhile back on working with coreNode.ancestors:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Growing-Successful-Communities/Retrieve-Title-Name-from-Ancestor/m-p/30135/highlight/true#M3458

I hope this helps!

-Adam