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fuenteso
Leader
9 years ago

Using HTTP PUT on an endpoint

Hi!   I've been trying to figure out how to edit a post directly from an endpoint. I not quite familiar with HTTP request over javascript, and the documentation (Updating message using HTTP PUT) is...
  • DougS's avatar
    DougS
    9 years ago

    I meant you need to use an endpoint that is hosted outside of the community to make the back-channel access token request. We currently restrict endpoints from calling .lithium.com domains for security reasons.

     

    If you are not able to host your own endpoint to make the access token request, you could try hitting the REST v1 messages/id/[message-id]/edit endpoint directly on the community (not through api.lithium.com) to make your message edit.

     

    -Doug

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fuenteso
Leader

Any suggestions? :) 

DougS's avatar
DougS
Khoros Oracle
9 years ago

I meant you need to use an endpoint that is hosted outside of the community to make the back-channel access token request. We currently restrict endpoints from calling .lithium.com domains for security reasons.

 

If you are not able to host your own endpoint to make the access token request, you could try hitting the REST v1 messages/id/[message-id]/edit endpoint directly on the community (not through api.lithium.com) to make your message edit.

 

-Doug

  • fuenteso's avatar
    fuenteso
    Leader
    9 years ago

    Thanks DougS,

     

    I understand. I think it's a lot of work to host my own endpoint just to call the API. But the API v1 now seems like the best option to me.

     

    I wasn't sure about it because if I undertand correctly, it uses GET to post the messages and since I'm updating the body of the messages I didn't want to risk hitting the request size limit, but, like I said, now it looks like the best option, I can always validate the request size and report back whatever messages are too big to be updated via API so our team can do it manually.

     

    Again, thanks a lot for your help!

    • DougS's avatar
      DougS
      Khoros Oracle
      9 years ago

      No problem!  We do support POST for V1 endpoints (we don't support PUT). You should use POST with the V1 endpoint (GET via jsonp will not work, or if it does will not work in the future). If you need to make the POST from another domain, you can work with Lithium support to get the domain whitelisted for CORS.

      • fuenteso's avatar
        fuenteso
        Leader
        9 years ago

        Well, tried with restadmin and the API v1 call and it worked. I even did some test with very large message bodies (over 10,000 characters) and I didn't get any errors. So I'm assuming something is done on the back-end.

         

        Anyways, I don't think we have posts larger than 10K characters, so this should work for us.

         

        Thanks again!