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Add a message to a message board
Send an Atom document containing a message entry to your own or another person's board feed.
See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.
Atom API request details
Method Resource URI Input representation POST user's board feed Value of the href attribute of the <link> element with the rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/mv/theboard" attribute value found in one of the following locations:
- Your service document to add the message to your own board.
- The user's profile entry to add the message to someone else's board.
message
Input
Provide a message Atom document.The content type of the Atom entry document must be application/atom+xml.
Output
An Atom entry document containing the new message. Returned HTTP Headers
- HTTP/1.1 201 Created
- Indicates that the message was successfully created. If an error occurs, this header will contain one of the error codes below.
- Location: url
- Link to edit_url of the message entry. You can use the Web address specified here to subsequently retrieve the message.
Error codes
- HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
- HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
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