How to distinguish topic, comment and reply

[Arun K]

Hi, nodebb stores everything as post but i want to know how to distinguish

• mainpost(post created with topic)
• comment(post to mainpost/topic)
• reply(post to comment)

any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[PitaJ]

What do you mean by distinguish?

[baris]

@Arun-K You can look at the data in the post object in a topic. For example in this topic your post is the main one so it has an index of 0.

A comment like @PitaJ 's post doesn't have a toPid field so it is a top level reply. I have directly replied your post so my post object has a toPid field.