Create a stand-alone forum reply programmatically 

To post a reply to a topic in a stand-alone forum, send an Atom entry document containing the forum reply to the forum replies resource.

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

Table 1. Atom API request details

Method Resource URI Input representation
POST forum replies feed Value of the href attribute of the <link> element with the rel="replies" attribute value in the forum topics feed. forum reply


Input

Provide a forum reply Atom entry document.

Note: The content type of the Atom entry document must be application/atom+xml.


Output

An Atom entry document containing the new forum reply.

Returned HTTP headers

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

Location: url

Error codes

Request:

POST /forums/atom/replies?topicUuid=84139b22-17f0-4290-939b-73370c6ef17c HTTP/1.1
Host: www.dulcinea.com
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Authorization: xxx
Content-Length: nnn
 
<entry xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <title type="text">Test reply 1</title>
    <content type="text">reply test</content>
    <updated>2010-08-04T13:48:48.622Z</updated>
    <category scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/type" term="forum-reply"></category>
    <thr:in-reply-to 
     xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" 
     ref="urn:lsid:ibm.com:forum:84139b22-17f0-4290-939b-73370c6ef17c" 
     href="https://www.dulcinea.com/forums/atom/topic?topicUuid=84139b22-17f0-4290-939b-73370c6ef17c">
   </thr:in-reply-to>
</entry>

Response:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:45:09 GMT
Content-Length: nnn
Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset="utf-8"
Location: http://www.dulcinea.com/forums/atom/replies
 
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <id>urn:lsid:ibm.com:forum:c8979fef-0be3-4f71-b080-7926aa1c270c</id>
    <title type="text">Test reply 1</title>
    <published>2010-08-04T21:45:11.215Z</published>
    <updated>2010-08-04T21:45:11.215Z</updated>
    <author>
        <email>jdoe@literature.com</email>
        <name>Jane Doe</name>
        <snx:userid xmlns:snx="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn">
         772A006E-0A01-8703-8525-7346003DAFD6
        </snx:userid>
        <snx:userState xmlns:snx="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn">active</snx:userState>
    </author>
    <link 
     href="https://www.dulcinea.com/forums/atom/reply?replyUuid=c8979fef-0be3-4f71-b080-7926aa1c270c" 
     rel="self" 
     type="application/atom+xml">
    </link>
    <link 
     href="https://www.dulcinea.com/forums/atom/reply?replyUuid=c8979fef-0be3-4f71-b080-7926aa1c270c" 
     rel="edit" 
     type="application/atom+xml">
    </link>
    <category term="forum-reply" scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/type"></category>
    <link 
     href="https://www.dulcinea.com/forums/html/topic?id=
      84139b22-17f0-4290-939b-73370c6ef17c#c8979fef-0be3-4f71-b080-7926aa1c270c" 
     rel="alternate" 
     type="text/html">
    </link>
    <link 
     xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" 
     href="https://www.dulcinea.com/forums/atom/replies?replyUuid=c8979fef-0be3-4f71-b080-7926aa1c270c" 
     rel="replies" 
     type="application/atom+xml" 
     thr:count="0">
    </link>
    <thr:in-reply-to 
     xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" 
     ref="urn:lsid:ibm.com:forum:84139b22-17f0-4290-939b-73370c6ef17c" 
     href="https://www.dulcinea.com/forums/atom/topics?forumUuid=84139b22-17f0-4290-939b-73370c6ef17c" 
     type="application/atom+xml">
    </thr:in-reply-to>
    <content type="html">reply test</content>
    <snx:permissions xmlns:snx="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn">
     none, create_forum, view_forum, edit_forum, del_forum, create_post, edit_personal_post, edit_all_post, 
     del_personal_post, del_all_post, pin_topic, subscribe, lock_node, add_member, delete_member, 
     create_topictag, del_all_topictag, del_personal_topictag, create_forumtag, del_all_forumtag, 
     del_personal_forumtag, view_category, edit_personal_question, edit_all_question
    </snx:permissions>
</entry>


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