lemmy/crates/api_common
Nutomic 9d26ac2c6f
Fix listing type default value (#2796)
* Fix listing type default value

The listing type parameter is only meant for the frontpage, but is
also applied inside of communities. The result is that this call
returns nothing, because it defaults to ListingType::Local:
https://fedibb.ml/api/v3/post/list?community_id=3

It needs to be called like this to get any posts:
https://fedibb.ml/api/v3/post/list?community_id=3&type_=All

This is clearly not expected behaviour, when a community is
specified, the listing type should default to All.

* fix clippy
2023-04-12 10:40:59 -04:00
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src Fix listing type default value (#2796) 2023-04-12 10:40:59 -04:00
Cargo.toml Remove unused dependencies (#2795) 2023-04-05 16:29:08 -04:00
README.md Add documentation for using Lemmy API from Rust (#2639) 2023-01-03 03:23:41 -05:00

README.md

lemmy_api_common

This crate provides all the data types which are necessary to build a client for Lemmy. You can use them with the HTTP client of your choice.

Here is an example using reqwest:

    let params = GetPosts {
        community_name: Some("asklemmy".to_string()),
        ..Default::default()
    };
    let client = Client::new();
    let response = client
        .get("https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/post/list")
        .query(&params)
        .send()
        .await?;
    let json = response.json::<GetPostsResponse>().await.unwrap();
    print!("{:?}", &json);

As you can see, each API endpoint needs a parameter type ( GetPosts), path (/post/list) and response type (GetPostsResponse). You can find the paths and parameter types from this file. For the response types you need to look through the crates lemmy_api and lemmy_api_crud for the place where Perform/PerformCrud is implemented for the parameter type. The response type is specified as a type parameter on the trait.

For a real example of a Lemmy API client, look at lemmyBB.

Lemmy also provides a websocket API. You can find the full websocket code in this file.