# Can't create GET request route
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [10.Октябрь.2017 08:44:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742 "2017-10-10T08:44:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Mathieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mathieu)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 08:44:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/1 "2017-10-10T08:44:48Z")
Hello,
I’m trying to create a custom API on Discourse for a plugin I’m working on.
I haven’t any problem to create a `POST` request, but when I try to create one with `GET`, it all the time returns a 404 error page.
Here is my code.
```plaintext
after_initialize do
module ::MyApiComments
class Engine < ::Rails::Engine
engine_name "myapi_comments"
isolate_namespace MyApiComments
end
end
class MyApiComments::CommentsController < ::ApplicationController
def get_topic_comments
# Some stuff here
render :json => message, :status => 200
end
end
MyApiComments::Engine.routes.draw do
get '/myapi-t/:id' => 'comments#get_topic_comments'
end
Discourse::Application.routes.append do
mount ::MyApiComments::Engine, at: "/"
end
end
```
When I use `post '/myapi-t/:id' => 'comments#get_topic_comments'`, all works fine. But I absolutely need to use a GET request and I can’t understand why it doesn’t works.
(by the way, I know there is already an API route to get topic posts, but I don’t use it for good reasons :))
Thanks for your help :).
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 08:54:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/2 "2017-10-10T08:54:13Z")
If you check your Rails logs, which controller is that route hitting?
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### Author:  [@Mathieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mathieu)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 09:13:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/3 "2017-10-10T09:13:58Z")
Thanks for your answer. Here is the log.
```plaintext
Processing by MyApiComment::CommentsController#get_topic_comments as */*
Parameters: {"id"=>"8"}
Rendered default/empty.html.erb within layouts/application (0.5ms)
Rendered layouts/_head.html.erb (34.0ms)
Rendered common/_google_universal_analytics.html.erb (0.8ms)
Rendered common/_discourse_stylesheet.html.erb (21.6ms)
Rendered common/_special_font_face.html.erb (2.3ms)
Rendered application/_header.html.erb (0.8ms)
Rendered common/_discourse_javascript.html.erb (117.0ms)
Rendered common/_google_analytics.html.erb (0.7ms)
Completed 200 OK in 453ms (Views: 277.3ms | ActiveRecord: 47.3ms)
```
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 10:33:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/4 "2017-10-10T10:33:56Z")
Do you mean you’re getting `404` on the client side? Based on the logs you pasted, it is returning a `200` response.
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### Author:  [@Mathieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mathieu)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 10:50:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/5 "2017-10-10T10:50:32Z")
Yeah, it seems it is a 200, not a 404 error page, sorry for mistake.
What I’m really getting is an HTML view with header content (logo, nav, etc.), but not a json string with what I asked for (using `render :json`).
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 13:07:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/6 "2017-10-10T13:07:07Z")
This sounds like a an [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=XY+Problem](http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=XY+Problem). You might get a better answer if you back up and describe what you are trying to accomplish.
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### Author:  [@Mathieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mathieu)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 13:20:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/7 "2017-10-10T13:20:12Z")
A GET request which returns JSON, as I described on my first message :).
Make a POST requests returns JSON I asked for, the GET one returns HTML. That is my current problem.
Thanks for trying to help me.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 14:54:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/8 "2017-10-10T14:54:14Z")
When you request the route, try putting `.json` at the end.
When you request a page on discourse, by default it returns the Ember app. If you want to use it programmatically, you need to put `.json` at the end.
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### Author:  [@Mathieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mathieu)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 15:24:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/9 "2017-10-10T15:24:04Z")
Ho.
Hmm, really nice thing to know :D.
I knew (I’m using it for other things) that the Discourse API needs to end by `.json`, but on a specific route that I declared myself… Is this documented somewhere?
Really thanks for your answer.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [08.Июнь.2024 12:44:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-create-get-request-route/71742/10 "2024-06-08T12:44:08Z")
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