discussions.md

Discussions

• Getting discussions
• Getting a discussion
• Creating a discussion
• Updating a discussion
• Adding a file to a discussion
• Deleting a discussion
• The discussion object
• Dependent objects

Getting discussions

You can list discussions by making a GET request to:

• /api/discussions for a list of all the discussions
• /api/discussions?where=project_id=[PROJECT_ID] for a list of discussions from a project
• /api/discussions?where=user_id=[USER_ID] for a list of discussions started by a user

Example of response:

{
    "discussions": [
        {
            "id": 10983,
            "name": "Preliminary research",
            "description": "We need to define exactly all the steps required for this preliminary research.",
            "project_id": 347452,
            "user_id": 1563,
            "created_on": "2014-10-01T12:04:07Z",
            "updated_on": "2014-10-01T12:11:05Z"
        },
        {
            "id": 9879,
            "name": "EA design",
            "description": "Who has access to the old EA Games design?",
            "project_id": 347452,
            "user_id": 1647,
            "created_on": "2014-07-23T14:22:05Z",
            "updated_on": "2014-07-23T14:22:05Z"
        }
    ]
}

You can also include related content when listing discussions.

Getting a discussion

To get the discussion info, make a GET request to:

• /api/discussions/[DISCUSSION_ID]
• /api/discussions/[DISCUSSION_ID]?include=files for discussion info with a list of attached files
• /api/discussions/[DISCUSSION_ID]?include=thread.comments for discussion info with a list of discussion comments

Example response:

{
    "discussions": [
        {
            "id": 10983,
            "name": "Preliminary research",
            "description": "We need to define exactly all the steps required for this preliminary research.",
            "project_id": 347452,
            "user_id": 1563,
            "created_on": "2014-10-01T12:04:07Z",
            "updated_on": "2014-10-01T12:11:05Z"
        }
    ]
}

You can also include related content when getting a discussion.

Creating a discussion

To create a discussion, make a POST request to:

• /api/discussions

with the request body containing the new discussion info, as in the example below:

{
    "name": "Where do we start?"
}

If successful, the response will return 201 Created. The response header Location will contain a link for the new discussion. The response body will contain the new discussion info as in the Getting a discussion section.

Required fields

When creating a discussion: name, project_id.

Updating a discussion

To update an existing discussion, make a POST or PUT request to:

• /api/discussions/[DISCUSSION_ID]

with the request body containing the updated info. You can send only the changed fields.

Example of request body if you want to change the discussion description:

{
    "description": "All required information should be posted in here"
}

The response will return 200 OK and will contain the updated discussion info as in the Getting a discussion section.

Adding a file to a discussion

To add a file to a discussion, make a POST request to:

• /api/discussions/[DISCUSSION_ID]

The request content-type should be multipart-form-data and the file field name equal to file. Here's an example using curl command line:

curl -u email:password
  -H 'Accept: application/json'
  -F "[email protected]"
  https://app.paymoapp.com/api/discussions/12345

The file can also be added when creating the discussion. In that case, all the discussion fields should be send in multipart-form-data format together with the file.

Deleting a discussion

To delete a discussion, make a DELETE request to:

• /api/discussions/[DISCUSSION_ID]

If successful, the response will have a 200 OK status code.

Warning

Deleting a discussion will also delete all comments from that discussion!

The discussion object

A discussion object has the following attributes:

Attribute	Type	Description
id	integer	(read-only) Unique discussion identifier
name	text	Discussion name
description	html	Discussion description
project_id	integer	Id of the project the discussion is about
user_id	integer	(read-only) Id of the user that started the discussion
created_on	datetime	(read-only) Date and time when the discussion was created
updated_on	datetime	(read-only) Date and time when the discussion was last updated

Dependent objects

The following object types can be used in includes:

Object type	Include key	Relationship
Project	project	parent
User	user	parent
Comments thread	thread	parent
File	files	child