Retrieve a stand-alone forum reply programmatically
To retrieve complete information about a reply to a topic in a stand-alone forum, use the edit link found in the forum reply entry in the forum replies feed.You can use this operation to obtain forum reply information that you want to preserve prior to performing an update. See Update forum replies for more information. This method returns the Atom entry of a single reply entry as opposed to a feed of all the reply entries.
See Authenticating requests for information about how to authenticate the request.
Table 1. Atom API request details
Method Resource URI Output representation GET forum reply Value of the href attribute of <link rel=edit"> element of each entry in the forum replies feed. forum reply
Input
None.
Output
An Atom entry document containing the forum reply.Returned HTTP headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Indicates that the forum reply was successfully found and returned. If an error occurs, this header will contain one of the error codes below.
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Indicates that the document returned contains data in Atom format.
- HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
- HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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Forum reply entry content
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