I am using the Discourse API to extract posts from a forum. I need help in understanding the meanings of the fields returned by the API. For example, post_type field in each post is a number. What are the valid values and what do they mean? Similarly, the id under actions_summary is a number. There …

[immagine] Goutham_Tholpadi: Any pointers on where I can get this information. If you have the Data Explorer plugin installed on your site, you can get details about the number codes used by hovering over the entries: [image] For example, hovering over the posts post_type field shows the f…

Thanks @simon ! This is an interesting way to get this info. I did some digging based on your suggestions and found this piece of code for user_actions, but could not find something similar for post_type after considerable searching. I was hoping that every field returned by the API would be documen…

[immagine] Goutham_Tholpadi: I did some digging based on your suggestions and found this piece of code for user_actions , but could not find something similar for post_type after considerable searching. That is understandable. There is similar code though. It’s here: discourse/app/models/post…

Thanks @simon ! Yes, listing the English names/one-line descriptions for numeric codes would be very useful. Is there someplace I can place a request for this?

[immagine] Goutham_Tholpadi: Is there someplace I can place a request for this? I agree that these fields need to be documented. I’ll assign this topic to myself and make sure that it gets done.

Descrizione dei campi restituiti dall'API di Discourse

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simon 6 Novembre 2020, 9:20pm 6

Concordo sul fatto che questi campi debbano essere documentati. Assegnerò questo argomento a me stesso e mi assicurerò che venga svolto.

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Descrizione dei campi restituiti dall'API di Discourse

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