I am running a test import of topics into discourse, for some topics I get error 422. I understand this basically means the syntax of the request is fine but there is something wrong with the data, but it doesn’t tell you what is wrong with the data making it difficult to work out For example I spe…

[image] paultaylor: I am running a test import of topics into discourse, for some topics I get error 422. When publishing posts to Discourse with the API, you can set the skip_validations parameter to true to avoid 422 errors for posts that would be disallowed by your site’s settings.

In this case found the problem the title was a duplicate title (after stripping of a trailing blank). I guess the process is to manually create in User Interface and see what happens

[image] simon: When publishing posts to Discourse with the API, you can set the skip_validations parameter to true to avoid 422 errors for posts that would be disallowed by your site’s settings. That is great, thankyou. But wish I had known about this before, is it documented at https://docs…

Confirmed that does indeed work

Difficult to work out reason for Http 422 error in api

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paultaylor (Paul Taylor) January 9, 2020, 7:27pm 4

That is great, thankyou.
But wish I had known about this before, is it documented at https://docs.discourse.org/ I can’t see it ?

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