RESTAPI for posting a discussion

http://community.lithium.com/t5/Developers-Knowledge-Base/Admin-Guide-REST-API-Documentation/ta-p/5966

As you know post needs the user to be logged in.
If you have already logged in and already have the session, just call the Rest Api to post: /boards/id/[id]/messages/post?message.subject="subject"&message.body="body"

It will be slightly different if your call is from outside community.

You need to login first:
http:/yourcommunity.com/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login?user.login=username&user.password=password

get the session key from the response (sessionKey).

and then post:
http:/yourcommunity.com/restapi/vc/boards/id/[id]/messages/post?message.subject="subject"&message.body="body"&restapi.session_key=sessionKey

Please find the detailed Api here:
http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-API/bd-p/developers-rest-api?page=authentication
http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-API/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Board.messages.post#Board.messages.post

Thank you for your reply,

I will need to first Login using code you gave but  

What is the [id] is this the id of the post I am making and what should this value be. So say I have a board called favouriteLinks how would I get an [id]

Kind Regards

Darryn Hart

[id] is the board id where you want to post. You can read this article for how to get the id for category/board/blog.

http://community.lithium.com/t5/Developers-Knowledge-Base/How-do-I-discover-the-Category-Board-Blog-ID-I-need-to-use-in-my/ta-p/36018

Hi barryhoffmann ,

my code here in Java which posts a discussion with an attachment, should be also useful for you.

cheers!