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I had no idea what the ContentType field in ItemSummary meant, so I decided to fetch data from the API and show me the content type. I'm quite confused: for QA questions it returns "Article", and for forum messages, sometimes it returns "ForumMessage" and sometimes "Forum Message".
What exactly does ContentType return?
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
modified 1-Jan-16 5:09am.
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In our system, we use Articles for Questions and Answers, so the Article Content Type is correct, if misleading.
As to the ForumMessages, I'll have to look into that.
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Hi Owner. Code project api is again down and i am getting asp.net death yellow page.
Can some one look into this issue. I just launched android app in market and its based on heavy used of API https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asthanarht.cpxamarin[^]
Please fix this issue, as app is already in production please make sure api should keep running.
Thanks
asthanarht
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It's up. Our apologies.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well, with my API wrapper continuing apace, one of the things that it would be great to be able to get is the content of a particular article for display, along with the downloads.
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If I say pretty please, will the gods of the API give me an answer?
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We run a pretty lean shop here at CodeProject Command Central. This means that some things don't get all the love that we would like to give them. Unfortunately, the CP API is one of these.
Also, I'm pretty sure that we wouldn't do this in any case as it would be a means to programmatically syphon our content in bulk.
However, I've just noticed that the API site is down and will get it going.
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It seems to have been down for a while...[^] I checked it quite often since that was posted by ProgramFOX (I saw the message shortly after he posted it) and it was always down for me.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Matthew Dennis wrote: However, I've just noticed that the API site is down and will get it going.
It's been up for a few days, but now I'm getting a runtime error again. Do you want to take a look at that? Thanks!
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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You can use the websiteLink property to get the article from the CodeProject website.
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I know I can do that - however, what comes across will not be an optimal format for the types of app I am hoping to develop out of this. Was it really something that couldn't be answered back in May?
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Trying to GET from this URL: https://api.codeproject.com/v1/Forum/1159/0?page=1, which is a valid one according to the docs, I get a 404 Not Found error.
Can you please take a look at this?
[Edit]
It does work when I replace 0 with messages, but the API docs say that 0 is a valid ForumDisplayMode.
The quick brown ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
modified 15-May-15 6:03am.
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Yes, it is the name, "Messages" or "Threads", that you use, not the value. I'll update the documentation.
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I've added syntax highlighting to the API Documentation and the code samples.
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Hi Matthew, is there any sort of list for upcoming APIs and features.
Can we see somewhere the plans for the future API development or maybe what is in your current roadmap?
Also is there any chance the API that I suggested (v1/{userId}/answers?page={page}, see Some suggestions for API enhancements below) would be available in a relative near future?
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Unfortunately, we run a pretty lean shop here at CodeProject Central and I'm working on some performance and scalability improvements for the main site.
These changes may/will affect the API, so I'm holding off on any non-critical or non-trivial changes.
I saw your other post, and it looks like you want me to implement OData plus a couple of new APIs.
I've got it bookmarked for when I get time to work on new stuff for the API.
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The API downloads appear to be out of action. I just tried to download various .zip files but they are all coming up with FNF errors.
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Do you mean downloading the samples? I can download them fine.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Hmm. Definitely not working for me. I will wait a bit and try again.
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Well that was odd. I had to log out and log back in to download the samples.
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Glad it is working again.
Just to understand what went wrong, what browser & version are you using?
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Latest version of Chrome on Windows 8.1.
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I'm currently working on small POC website that shows CodeProject member's Q&A tags statistic (if interested it is available here) and while building it I collected few suggestions which I hope you'll find interesting and/or useful.
- First the easy one, in API documentations on few places the CodeProject APIs are referred as HTML services.
I think this should be HTTP services or better jet RESTful services.
- Somewhat common practice for defining a response's format is to add a format's extension termination on the URL to identify data type you want to request from the server, for example like the following:
v1/my/articles.xml?page={page}
v1/my/articles.json?page={page}
Now whether this is truly a RESTful approach or a best practice is debatable, but as it is now there is a problem of mixing two conventions. You see the versioning does not follow the convention that setting the result format uses. In order for versioning to follow the same convention (a true RESTful approach) it should also be defined in Media Type header, for example like the following:
"application/json;application&v=1"
Nevertheless I must say I don't see any downfall in supporting both approaches, as long as the priorities and the used default values are documented.
- Regarding the MY API, most (if not all) of these currently available GET APIs are publicly available resources. I mean every CodeProject member can look at the other member's Questions, Answers, Articles, etc. so it just feels natural to me that Client Credentials Grant should be required here, not Authorization Code Grant.
Nevertheless I'm not suggesting to change the current MY API (because I presume it is likely that you want to add follow-up PUT, POST, etc. APIs here), instead I'm suggesting to add something like the following:
v1/{userId}/answers?page={page}
v1/{userId}/articles?page={page}
And this API should work on Client Credentials Grant or Implicit Grant flow.
- Regarding the pagination, pageSize should definitely be available for querying together with page and you could specify the pageSize value limitation in the documentation.
So something like this should be supported:
v1/my/answers?page={page}&pageSize={pageSize}
Also I believe a very useful thing could be to provide First, Last, Next and Previous resource locations in PaginationInfo so that the pagination can be processed continuously from the response itself.
For example for the following API:
v1/my/answers?page=3
Could result into something like the following:
"pagination": {
"page": 3,
"pageSize": 25,
"totalPages": 5,
"totalItems": 25,
"first" : { "href" : "https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=1" },
"prev" : { "href" : "https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=2" },
"next" : { "href" : "https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=4" },
"last" : { "href" : "https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=5" },
}
Or maybe something like this:
<Pagination>
<Page>3</Page>
<PageSize>25</PageSize>
<TotalPages>5</TotalPages>
<TotalItems>25</TotalItems>
<link rel="first" href="https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=1" />
<link rel="prev" href="https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=2" />
<link rel="next" href="https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=4" />
<link rel="last" href="https://api.codeproject.com/v1/my/answers?page=5" />
</Pagination>
- Partial returned result, so instead of receiving a full result and filtering out the necessary data we could do something like this:
v1/my/answers?page=3&fields=pagination(totalItems),items(id,summary)
And receive only the following:
{
"pagination": {
"totalItems": 2
},
"items": [
{
"id": "100",
"summary": "First sample item."
},
{
"id": "200",
"summary": "Second sample item."
}
]
}
I hope any of these you will find useful, if you don't mind these type of suggestions let me know and I will continue collecting them and posting here afterword.
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Hi,
I just thought to share with you a sample application with a portable library for CodeProject API Wrapper.
C# CodeProject API Wrapper[^]
Ranjan.D
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