CodeProject API

2-Feb-17 11:55

We're back.

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Re: API down

Robert Vandenberg Huang10-May-17 14:27

Robert Vandenberg Huang

10-May-17 14:27

Seems it's down again.
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Re: API down

Matthew Dennis10-May-17 15:32

10-May-17 15:32

fixed. Both Chris and I keep forgetting the one special step in deploying this.

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FormumMessages API

Jan van den Baard10-Jan-17 19:40

Jan van den Baard

10-Jan-17 19:40

I may be beating a dead horse here but I am experimenting a bit with the CodeProject API creating a C# wrapper for it to (perhaps some day) be used in a Xamarin app as I am keen in learning Cross-Platform development with Xamarin.

Anyhow I have things pretty much worked out but I am curious about the FormMessages API. Both calls in that API require a ID to be passed (forum ID or thread ID) but I am at a loss as to get those ID's... Is there a way that I can retrieve those ID's through the API (I.E. am I missing something blatantly obvious) or is that still missing from the API? If so then how would I get access to those ID's?

Regards,
Jan

Thomas Daniels11-Jan-17 3:38

11-Jan-17 3:38

A forum ID can be found from the URL of a forum. Here is the full list of forums.[^]. For example ".NET Framework" is 1650.

Each message has a "Permalink" whose URL contains an ID. The "thread ID" is the permalink ID of the top-level message, the thread.

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Jan van den Baard11-Jan-17 4:37

Jan van den Baard

11-Jan-17 4:37

I was afraid of that... Having to extract the forum ID's from links of the forum overview page kind of defeats the purpose of have an API. I know the API is "early beta" but it has been that way for so long that I expect it is not going to get updated any time soon.

Well... I will figure out if, and if so how I am going to deal with this.
Thanks for pointing me to the forum overview page.

Regards,
Jan

Matthew Dennis11-Jan-17 6:33

11-Jan-17 6:33

Damn, that is an obvious omission. I'll try and find some time to add something to list the common forums. In the mean time, you can look at Discussion Boards[^] to get a list of these.

I won't be able to list ALL the forums as the comments at the end of each article is a forum as well.

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What about Views and Downloads?

Jan van den Baard11-Jan-17 15:18

Jan van den Baard

11-Jan-17 15:18

Thanks. Good to hear that there is still activity on the API development as time permits. For now I decided to "mock" an API call to return a list of available forums (which will return a static ItemSummary list for now). When you get around to implementing something it should not be to difficult to replace that mock.

As for the forums at the end of an article a pointer to that should ultimately be returned through the GET V1/Articles call. That would probably mean an extra field in the ItemSummary but that way they are accesible as well.

Regards,
Jan

Api is down?

LeopoldVI13-Sep-16 1:48

LeopoldVI

13-Sep-16 1:48

Is the api down at the moment?

#realJSOP21-Apr-16 4:35

#realJSOP

21-Apr-16 4:35

In the my/articles api, there doesn't appear to be an element that represents the number of views or downloads. Is there a tangible reason for these to be omitted?

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API down?

Thomas Daniels1-Feb-16 5:58

1-Feb-16 5:58

It seems to be down already for a few days.

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Re: API down?

Brisingr Aerowing1-Feb-16 7:49

Brisingr Aerowing

1-Feb-16 7:49

I guess the new and improved deployment script still has some bugs...

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Re: API down?

Matthew Dennis1-Feb-16 8:13

My API: include References

1-Feb-16 8:13

Nope, just making sure everybody uses them.

Re: API down?

Brisingr Aerowing1-Feb-16 9:07

Brisingr Aerowing

1-Feb-16 9:07

It's always that one person who insists on doing things the old way, eh?

Thomas Daniels29-Dec-15 0:33

/my/notifications: ObjectTypeName, ObjectId and Topic

29-Dec-15 0:33

Using the My API, you can get your articles, blog posts and tips. But references are missing there. I think it would be useful if they were there too, so could they please be added?

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Thomas Daniels26-Dec-15 5:27

26-Dec-15 5:27

I'm not entirely sure what the ObjectTypeName, ObjectId and Topic members of NotificationViewModel point at. When I tested them for a notification for a comment to an answer, I got "Article" for ObjectTypeName, the answer ID for ObjectId and "Comment" for Topic. But when testing the same for a message on an article forum, I got "Forum Message" for ObjectTypeName, the message ID for ObjectId and "Forum Message" for Topic. This looked a bit odd to me because it was entirely different for the comment to the answer.

How do these properties actually work?

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Api is again down

maq_rohit18-Dec-15 9:05

maq_rohit

18-Dec-15 9:05

Hi Admin,

Looks like API https://api.codeproject.com/[^] is again down, I have seen pattern is so frequent down.Please fix this asap. I have developed app which is based on codeproject api and in market place https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=asthanarht.cpxamarin[^]

Is codeproject api kind of beginning evolution?

asthanarht

Re: Api is again down

Matthew Dennis18-Dec-15 9:27

18-Dec-15 9:27

Sorry, we have an error in our new and improved deployment script that is resulting in the incorrect configuration file being deploy. I'm doing a deploy the tried and true way and the site should be up in a few minutes.

Re: Api is again down

maq_rohit18-Dec-15 11:29

maq_rohit

18-Dec-15 11:29

Thanks Site is up and running.

asthanarht

Re: Api is again down

Brisingr Aerowing31-Jan-16 15:35

Brisingr Aerowing

31-Jan-16 15:35

Matthew Dennis wrote:
new and improved deployment script

Not so improved now, is it?

Runtime error on API

Thomas Daniels21-Nov-15 3:24

21-Nov-15 3:24

http://api.codeproject.com/[^] shows me Server Error in '/' Application. (I cannot give more info about the error message I get because the server configuration appears to specify that it isn't viewable on remote devices.)

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Empty "ApiLink"?

Thomas Daniels4-Nov-15 9:27

4-Nov-15 9:27

From the docs:

Quote:
Gets or sets the link to the full item on the API.

When I actually run an API query, I've found that this field is always empty. Is that a bug, or is it just something that still has to be implemented?

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Re: Empty "ApiLink"?

Matthew Dennis9-Nov-15 2:01

What is "ContentType" in ItemSummary?

9-Nov-15 2:01

This hasn't been implemented yet.

Thomas Daniels3-Nov-15 23:41

Re: What is "ContentType" in ItemSummary?

3-Nov-15 23:41

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?

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modified 1-Jan-16 5:09am.

Matthew Dennis9-Nov-15 2:04