Hello @team
I’ve been trying to rename topics via the API.
I’ve also tried just using ‘http://{discourse-url}/t/{topic-id}.json’ with the various arrangements of the data. I have also tried looking at the chrome developer tools and trying to mimic that call (even copying and pasting the token instead of using the api key and username).
No matter what I try, I either get a “BAD CSRF” error, or am told that I don’t have the correct access rights to view the page.
I have not had trouble with other API requests using the same key and username (making topics, making categories, renaming/changing categories).
I would really appreciate some help here as I’ve been stuck with this for a few days now.
Thanks!
blake
July 10, 2017, 10:05pm
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In situations like these I find it very helpful to install postman to minimize any content-type errors or authorization headers that can be hard to debug sometimes.
To rename a topic send a PUT request to http://discourse.example.com/t/-/1.json (you can just use a hyphen for the slug, instead of the actual slug, but it can’t be blank). In the body of your PUT quest include the api_key, api_username, and title. Send it with content-type form-data.
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That seems to have worked. Thank you so much!
Not totally on the same topic, but since I have you – are there ways to reset the max length of a category name? It seems to be set to 50 but I’d like to allow mine to be longer. (@team , @blake )
This works from Postman (Dropbox - Screenshot 2017-07-17 17.15.08.png - Simplify your life ) but not when I try to do it from code. What am I doing wrong here?@blake
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
'Cache-Control': 'no-cache'
}
data = {
'api_key': os.getenv('DISCOURSE_API_KEY'),
'api_username': os.getenv('DISCOURSE_API_USERNAME'),
'title': instance.title
}
url_string = 'http://bbhalfdome.trydiscourse.com/t/{slug}/{id}' \
.format(slug=discourse_thread.discourse_thread_slug,
id=discourse_thread.discourse_thread_id)
result = requests.put(url_string, headers=headers, data=data)
blake
July 18, 2017, 1:30am
6
I don’t think there is a way to increase it passed 50. I believe this is because there are many places in the UI that we show the category name and so the UI just will not look or work very well with long category names.
I’m not sure. Can you try hardcoding all your python variables to valid strings so that we can rule out any issues with populating the variables.
The variables work for other API calls (creating categories and topics) so I think we can rule that out.
blake
July 18, 2017, 2:37am
8
Next time can you please include any error messages you have. What is the response code? What is the response text that you get back?
I don’t know much about python, but maybe it has something to do with newline characters in your data hash.
This code works fine:
import requests
url = 'http://192.168.56.2:3000/t/-/1.json'
data = {'api_key': '62bb871486b3bf12af6dde4610e6b2d825588eccd6b0b6ea5de0f35c129992fc','api_username': 'system','title': 'This topic was renamed with python'}
response = requests.put(url, data=data)
print response
print response.text
output:
python app.py
<Response [200]>
{"basic_topic":{"id":1,"title":"This topic was renamed with python","fancy_title":"This topic was renamed with python","slug":"this-topic-was-renamed-with-python","posts_count":1}}
Here’s the response code and text:
<Response [403]>
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Python dicts work fine w/ new lines, and I have newlines in my other requests that work. Nevertheless, tried removing them and still get the above.
blake
July 18, 2017, 6:12pm
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does topic id 233 even exist on your forum?
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Ah. Looks like the ID was saved incorrectly in our DB. Thank you so much, and sorry to bother you.
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