how to build a comment tree from the lemmy API? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml to c/lemmydev@lemm.ee

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i have requests to fetch comment and post data, but i'm struggling to work out how to build a tree from the responses? do i fetch comments with arg parent_id to get a comment's children, and do so recursively for those comments returned that themselves have comments?

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[-] blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

thanks for the clear info. i think i'd missed the All type_. now off to find the path attribute.

[-] blawsybogsy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

so "path" is a decimal separated list of comment ids? docs say nothing, but it looks like that.

[-] nmtake@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Yes. See here.

[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

chiming in here because I’m trying to figure this out too. If there’s say, thousands of comments, and I don’t want to get all of them at once, how would I sort them based off the path? I don’t want to miss any replies to comments that are loaded, and it doesn’t appear that comments returned are sorted or grouped together in any way by default

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