Discourse API Gem - how to create topic with tags?

[AstonJ]

This isn’t working…

client.create_topic(
  title: "My Title",
  category: "13",
  raw: "My Post",
  tags: "testtag"
)

Since we require at last one tag, I get:

DiscourseApi::UnprocessableEntity ({"action"=>"create_post", "errors"=>["You must select at least 1 tag."]}):

Any idea how we create topics with tags via the Discourse gem?

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Maybe make it tags:["testtag"]

[AstonJ]

That doesn’t work either Faizaan (same message that a tag is required).

Not sure if this is out of date, but it seems that tags are different to the others being some sort of array type - but how do we use that via the gem?

Can't create topic with tag using admin API due to insufficient trust level

This worked for me and added two tags: curl --data "api_key=asdf...asdf&api_username=neill&title=this%20one%20has%20two%20tags&raw=and%20it%20is%20twice%20as%20delicious&tags[]=mazda&tags[]=protege" http://localhost:3000/posts.json [image] So I’m not sure why it isn’t working for you…

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

If you look at the network tab while making a successful request, then you can translate it to how to do it with the gem.

[AstonJ]

It needs this format:

@vinothkannans

You should try like tags[]="testtag" . It’s an array type.

But how to do that with the gem?

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

This is what I illustrated in my above post.

[AstonJ]

…but it does not work:

DiscourseApi::UnprocessableEntity ({“action”=>“create_post”, “errors”=>[“You must select at least 1 tag.”]}):

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Can you try some other tags?

[AstonJ]

Haha that’s what I was thinking too so just did - the last few I tried definitely exist (but still doesn’t work).

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Can you turn off required tags on a category to see whether the thing actually works?

[AstonJ]

Do you mean the gem? It works as I use it to make posts in existing topics (from the same script in fact), send PMs etc. This is the first time I am trying to add tags though…

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Ok, I see. I’m sure you are doing but just confirming

client.create_topic(
  title: "My Title",
  category: "13",
  raw: "My Post",
  tags: ["testtag", "testtag2"]
)

[blake (Blake Erickson)]

Looking at the source code for the discourse_api gem it doesn’t look like it supports creating topics with tags yet. I’ll add it to my list.

[AstonJ]

Thanks Blake

[blake (Blake Erickson)]

Okay, you can create Topics with tags now using the latest version (0.42.0) of the discourse_api gem.

You just need to pass the tags in an array like so:

@fzngagan

client.create_topic(
  title: "My Title",
  category: "13",
  raw: "My Post",
  tags: ["testtag", "testtag2"]
)

[AstonJ]

Wow - that was fast Blake!

I wasn’t expecting an update so soon and so managed to find a workaround by using the post method and passing everything as params. Doing it with create_topic is definitely better tho, thanks!