Pumpkin

User moderated open commenting system

Usage

For pre-populating and/or testing, run the REST URLs provided in test_URLs.txt.

• Clicking on the link of a topic will take you to that link.
• Clicking on the topic title will show all replies to that topic
• Clicking on "add reply" will allow you to add a reply to the parent
• You can submit new topics through the form at the bottom

How it all works

The system uses an Object to store a sequence of topics. Each topic is the root of a tree-like structure. The children and subsequent branches are replies.

Topics	All topics are stored in an object
Topic	Topic is an object under topics with attributes: "id", "text", "link", "weight", "replies"
Replies	All replies to a topic are stored in an object
Reply	Reply is an object under replies with attributes: "id", "text", "votes", "weight", "replies", "children_ids"

API Endpoints

Get all topics - /topic/all

Attributes

Path	/topic/all
HTTP Method	GET

Parameters

None

Response

JSON of all topics and replies.

	JSON format
Topic	{ "id": topic_id, "text": text, "link": link, "weight": 0, "replies": {} }
Reply	{ "id": reply_id, "text": text, "votes": 0, "weight": 0, "replies": {}, "children_ids": [] }

Example

Request	$.get('http://127.0.0.1:30925/topic/all')
Response	{"0":{"id":0,"text":"Cool search engine","link":"http://google.com","weight":0,
	"replies":{"1":{"id":1,"text":"just a reply","votes":0,"weight":0,"replies":{},"children_ids":[]}}}}

Add new topic - /topic/add

Path	/topic/add
HTTP Method	POST

Parameters

text	140 character maximum text
link	URL

Format: /topic/add?text=yourtext&link=yourlink

Response

JSON of topic added.

	JSON format
Topic	{ "id": topic_id, "text": text, "link": link, "weight": 0, "replies": {} }

Example

Request	$.post('http://127.0.0.1:30925/topic/add?text=yourtext&link=yourlink')
Response	{"id":3,"text":"yourtext","link":"yourlink","weight":0,"replies":{}}

Get all replies for a specified topic - /topic/reply/all##

Path	/topic/reply/all
HTTP Method	GET

Parameters

topicid	Valid existing topic ID

Format: /topic/reply/all?topicid=XX

Response

JSON of all replies for specified topic.

	JSON format
Reply	{ "id": reply_id, "text": text, "votes": 0, "weight": 0, "replies": {}, "children_ids": [] }

Example

Request	$.get('http://127.0.0.1:30925/topic/reply/all?topicid=0')
Response	{"1":{"id":1,"text":"just a reply","votes":0,"weight":0,"replies":{},"children_ids":[]}}

Add a new reply - /topic/reply/add

Path	/topic/reply/add
HTTP Method	POST

Parameters

topicid	Valid existing topic ID
parentid (optional)	ID of reply this is in response to (ie. parent reply). Not needed for direct reply to topic.
text	Reply content

Format: /topic/reply/add?topicid=XX&parentid=YY&text=ZZ

Response

JSON of all reply added.

	JSON format
Reply	{ "id": reply_id, "text": text, "votes": 0, "weight": 0, "replies": {}, "children_ids": [] }

Example

Request	$.post('http://127.0.0.1:30925/topic/reply/add?topicid=0&text=yourreplytext')
Response	{"id":4,"text":"yourreplytext","votes":0,"weight":0,"replies":{},"children_ids":[]}

Vote for a reply - /topic/reply/upvote

Path	/topic/reply/upvote
HTTP Method	POST

Parameters

replyid	ID of reply for which the vote is being registered

Format: /topic/reply/upvote?replyid=YY

Response

Plain text: success

	JSON format
Reply	{ "id": reply_id, "text": text, "votes": 0, "weight": 0, "replies": {}, "children_ids": [] }

Example

Request	$.post('http://127.0.0.1:30925/topic/reply/upvote?topicid=0&replyid=4')
Response	success