Create subcommunities programmatically 

To create a subcommunity, send an Atom entry document containing the new subcommunity to the My Communities resource.

See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.

Table 1. Atom API request details

Method	Resource	URI	Input representation
POST	User's My communities feed	In the My Communities feed, find the value of the href attribute of the <link> element for the community to which you want to add the subcommunity that has the rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/subcommunities" attribute.	subcommunity

Input

Provide a subcommunity Atom entry document. A subcommunity is the same as a community entry, but contains a rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/parentcommunity" <link> element. The content type of the Atom entry document must be application/atom+xml.

Output

An Atom entry document containing the new subcommunity entry.

Returned HTTP headers

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

Indicates that the subcommunity was successfully created. If an error occurs, this header contains one of the error codes.

Location: url

Link to edit_url of the new subcommunity entry. You can use the web address specified here to subsequently retrieve and update the subcommunity entry.

Error codes

• HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

• HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

Parent topic

Work with subcommunities

Related reference
Community entry content

   

 

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