How can I read a resource only by their id (cid, uid, tid etc.) rather than the name or name+id?

truetuna

Awesome the /uid/:id works.

Yeah I noticed that. For now, I can simply just make a 2nd request for topics, categories etc. after getting the redirect path. It would be good to have a similar url style for topics, categories as well in the future. Perhaps something like:

"https://community.nodebb.org/api/topic/tid/6438/"
"https://community.nodebb.org/api/category/cid/6438/"

Anyway, I'll create an issue (on Github?) and reference back to this topic.

On a somewhat similar topic, how does authentication work with /api routes that aren't exposed by the write-api? When I try to make a request to say http://localhost:4567/api/user/uid/:id, I get 401 not-authorised but when I do the same thing on https://community.nodebb.org it goes through without raising an authentication error. Is there something I have to enable in my NodeBB instance's ACP?

<baris>

Yeah make it on our github and link back here.

There is a private user info setting in the ACP, if its on you can't retrieve user data.

truetuna

Done and thanks!

julian

@truetuna Public routes are always accessible via corresponding /api route. Protected routes (like /user/julian/settings) you can access if you send in the user/master token like a write-api route.

<baris>

This is on master now.

The routes are

/api/user/uid/:uid
/api/post/pid/:pid
/api/topic/tid/:tid
/api/category/cid/:cid

truetuna

Thanks @baris. Is it possible for this to also go into the 0.7.x branch?

truetuna

Hey @baris, what's the status on this? I don't mind doing it and just making a PR to branch 0.7.x. It's just going to a carbon copy of the changes in your commit here: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/c139dfa843b87bdb246a2804946e8e5502a4719e

Nicolas

@truetuna If you need only users, you could use this plugin: https://github.com/NicolasSiver/nodebb-plugin-ns-api

I have made it to expose users with user id, also I have cleared user object, so it will be more suffice for external API/integrations.

<baris>

@truetuna feel free to send a PR, I recently changed it to https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/f3b6a5fbb92db6b1ada3d6ee086473cc11dd1b07#diff-4913b70c5883cd908f702f7e02f1397e so copy that.

truetuna

Thanks Nicholas, but according to the comments above, there already exists an endpoint to get users /api/user/uid/:uid so I don't need to install any additional plugins (phew!). I'm in the process of writing a Python wrapper so although I only need users right now, I'm going to eventually need support for others.

@baris, will do! I'll see if I can get it done tomorrow.

truetuna

Hey @baris, I made a PR yesterday.