Posting New Comment
In this section, we will briefly explain the REST API to Posting New Comment.
The REST API call allows requester to post a new comment to a post created on the site. To do so, requester need to send a POST request to this following url:
http://site.com/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&view=comment&layout=save&format=json&tmpl=component
POST Parameters
The following are the available parameters when a POST is made to this API call:
auth(required)
This auth parameter is the authorization auth token.userId(required)
This userId parameter is the user id received with the authorization auth token.id(required)
This id parameter is the post id.content(required)
This content parameter is the comment content.
Response
Upon a successful request, EasyDiscuss system will return a response in a form of JSON to the requester.
The successful request response will looks similar as below:
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"comment": {
"user_id": "960",
"name": "Haikal Harris",
"email": "haikal@mail.com",
"comment": "this is comment from rest api",
"post_id": "25",
"permalink": "http://ed.repo/index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&view=post&id=25&Itemid=118&format=json"
}
},
"message": "Comment posted successfully"
}
And a fail request response will looks similar as below:
{
"code": 404,
"message": "Invalid username or password"
}