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barryhoffmann
Mentor
11 years ago
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RESTAPI for posting a discussion

Does any one have a document of how to use the restapi to past a discussion and an example of a URL.  
  • SuzieH's avatar
    SuzieH
    11 years ago

    The most current documentation is found here. To post a message to a board, you might want to look here.

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LiangY
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

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

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darrynh
Contributor
11 years ago

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