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`, { metho…

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 br…

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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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 3, 2022, 7:22pm 2

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.

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Unable to lock post with API

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