/services/v2/node/[ideaId]/comment.json

You can use the following parameters in your post reply to an idea request:

Other options: wrap, v1

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Permissions & Notes:

You must have the Submit idea comment permission under Custom Roles in the Advanced Editor.

You must also have the Publish idea comment permission under Custom Roles in the Advanced Editor if you want the comment to automatically publish.

You can specify the data describing the reply you are posting, in the body of the request.

When you send data in the body of the request, the format should match the URL extension, or the value of the site's HTTP request header content-type.

If you specify data values for the same field, both on the request body, and as a request or query parameter, the value of the parameters takes precedence over the value in the body.

We added this request in version 1.6.3.6.

Sample Request

A POST post reply to an idea request to post a reply ("Body of your comment as a response to an idea") for an idea (ideaId: 857) sent to https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com using a human-readable username and password (admin/test123), would look like this:

curl 
-H "admin:test123" 
-H "Accept: application/json" 
-H "Content-type: application/json" 
-X POST 
-d '{"body":"Body of your comment as a response to an idea"}' "https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/idea/857/comment.json" -v

Expected Response

Successful Response:

HTTP Status 201 - Created

{
    "id": "858",
    "type": "ideacomment",
    "creationDate": 1550516867160,
    "creationDateFormatted": "02/18/2019 07:07 PM",
    "body": "<div class=\"fr-view clearfix\">Body of your comment as a response to an idea</div>",
    "bodyAsHTML": "<div class=\"fr-view clearfix\">Body of your comment as a response to an idea</div>",
    "author": {
        "id": 108,
        "username": "admin",
        "realname": null,
        "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e955c70eeff0abe1974c9be300a8887?d=identicon&r=PG",
        "reputation": 91
    },
    "lastEditedAction": 1143,
    "activeRevisionId": 870,
    "revisionIds": [
        870
    ],
    "lastActiveUserId": 108,
    "lastActiveDate": 1550516867160,
    "parentId": 857,
    "parentAuthor": {
        "username": "dzone",
        "realname": null
    },
    "originalParentId": 857,
    "childrenIds": [],
    "commentIds": [],
    "marked": false,
    "topics": [],
    "containerIds": [],
    "plug": null,
    "wiki": false,
    "score": 0,
    "depth": 0,
    "reportCount": 0
}

Community User Interface Result

You will see a comment added to the idea with the information you provided