I make a couple of API calls from my application to Discourse to modify posts. In the first call I edit the post. That works great. In the next call I try to lock the post. My post locking call from JavaScript looks like this fetch(`https://forum.hollowverse.com/posts/1817/locked.json`, { method: 'PUT', headers: { 'Api-Key': process.env.DISCOURSE_SYSTEM_PRIVILEGE_SECRET, 'content-type': 'application/json', 'Api-Username': 'hollowbot', }, body: JSON.stringify({locked: true}), }); When I fire this call, Discourse responds to me with {locked: false}. I tried locking the post manually and inspecting the API call that the Discourse client makes, and it looks very similar to the one I make from my application, with the exception of the authentication method, perhaps. No sure what’s going on, any ideas?

The code is params[:locked] === "true" ? locker.lock : locker.unlock Which seems to be doing a string compare. That means that you would need to send "locked": "true" and not "locked": true and that the documentation or code would need to be updated to reflect or change this behavior. The browser does not send a JSON request, it sends Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded which will interpret the parameter as a string, and that is why it does work in the browser.

I don’t see an obvious problem. Did you get that by following How to reverse engineer the Discourse API? That’s what I’d do to help if I were at my computer.

The API to lock a post is documented here Discourse API Docs but yeah, I also tried to reverse engineer how the Discourse client does it, and it looks very similar to the way I’m doing it from my application.

Thank you for your help Richard! [image] Richard - Communiteq: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded which will interpret the parameter as a string TIL! And I’ll look into PRing an update to the docs.

Unable to lock post with API

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mksafi (M.K.) June 4, 2022, 4:18pm 5

Thank you for your help Richard!

TIL!

And I’ll look into PRing an update to the docs.

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