Hi there, At the moment I am working on an extra PostMenuButton. Funny thing is that the Cooked post is always available but the Raw post is not! Running discourse version [v2.3.0.beta8 +103] api.addPostMenuButton('trimetrack', attrs => { return { action: 'createTimeTracking', icon: 'calendar-alt', className: 'time-tracking', title: 'time_tracking', position: 'first' }; } ); api.attachWidgetAction('post-menu', 'createTimeTracking', function() { const post = this.findAncestorModel(); alert("Raw post: " + post.raw); alert("Cooked post: " + post.cooked); }); Steps to reproduce: Create theme component with code as shown above. Create a new post, do not refresh, click the calendar icon. See the alert pop-ups. [image] Refresh the page. Click on the calendar button again for the same post. [image] Now the post only has the cooked content available, raw content is not getting through. I hope anyone can either spot my failure or confirm the bug :slight_smile:

This is by design, we prefer to keep our topic payload smaller so if you need raw you have to ask for it on-demand. Otherwise we would be shipping data to all clients that they do not need the vast majority of the time.

Thanks for your reply! Now I can stop wasting time :slight_smile: [image] sam: we prefer to keep our topic payload smaller Ahh that makes so much sense! [image] sam: ask for it on-demand Could you point me in the right direction to retrieve post data from javascript? I had a sort of workaround to get the .json by retrieving the /t/raw/{topicid}/{postid}.json but that was really ugly and there must be a better way.

[image] Mathijs_V: I had a sort of workaround to get the .json by retrieving the /t/raw/{topicid}/{postid}.json but that was really ugly and there must be a better way. Yeah that is pretty much your only option.

Thank you. I will make my workaround less ugly and post it here when finished!

Is this still true? When editing a post the request is to e.g. /posts/13.json Is there any JS API for that? Or any JS API for making an authenticated request? @Mathijs_V Would you share your code? Thanks!

That’s how i did it at the moment: import {ajax} from "discourse/lib/ajax"; ... let post = this.findAncestorModel(); ajax(`/posts/${post.id}`, { type: "GET", cache: false }).then( (result) => { console.log(result.raw); } ); Taken from here: discourse-checklist/assets/javascripts/discourse/initializers/checklist.js.es6 at a94022393c1fd290e492688041896d4392129052 · discourse/discourse-checklist · GitHub

Retrieving post.raw only works right after creating post

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sam (Sam Saffron) April 17, 2019, 7:38am 4

Yeah that is pretty much your only option.

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Retrieving post.raw only works right after creating post

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