API not working

prakashraman

I have been trying all day to get the API to work on my Vanilla Forum (Community Edition). I am not entirely sure if the API is available for this version or it is only with one of the paid plans. Documentation does not seem clear enough.

Does anyone know what might be going on or have I set it up wrong ?

x00

which API?

hgtonight

Welcome to the community!

What version of Vanilla are you running?

I believe you are referring to the API that lets you post to Vanilla. If this is the case, it is only available to hosted forums.

However, a community regular named kasper created an Vanilla API application and released it here in the addons.

prakashraman

Thanks for the replies.

Vanilla Details:

• Self Hosted (on an amazon ec2 instance - ubuntu 12.04)
• Database Mysql - Server version: 5.5.31-0
• PHP 5.3.10-1
• vanilla-core-2-0-18-8

I am trying to run the API's from http://vanillaforums.com/blog/api/

Intention:
I have a wordpress website. And I want to create a discussion for each post that is created (programatically). And I want to display the discussion in the wordpress post's page.

I tried running this API
/api/v1/categories/list.json

And got the following error (see attachment)

hgtonight

@prakashraman said:
I am trying to run the API's from http://vanillaforums.com/blog/api/

That page doesn't pertain to this community supported application. You are looking at the wrong documentation. If it worked at all, it was merely a coincidence.

You can find the documentation in the /docs/build folder.

prakashraman

Ah I see.

And where is the /docs/build folder ? In the extracted vanilla zip there does not exist a "docs" folder (see attachment)

hgtonight

In the Vanilla API addon zip you downloaded.

prakashraman

Hmm.. So I looked at it. Could not really find any example/usage. From what I understand the an api would be
http://domain.com/api/categories

But still getting the same error.

Kasper

My API application is only compatible with Vanilla 2.1 as it uses some new methods of the Gdn_Request(), methods that weren't introduced until 2.1. As of v0.0.7-dev (currently on the develop branch) I've also removed the Sami-generated documentation as it merely bloated the repo. I plan on releasing some thorough docs once a stable version is out, but it could take a while as my job keeps me rather busy.

prakashraman

Hi Kasper.

I see. Well I guess, I will have to stick to the 2.0.18.8 version I have.

In case, maybe you could help me, or point me in the right direction. I want to be able to programatically create discussions into the forum. Any good place for me to start ?

Shadowdare

Is the WordPress site you're trying to create discussions from hosted on the same server, meaning you can access Vanilla files from WordPress, or is it hosted remotely?

prakashraman

Yes both are on the same server. I will be able to access Vanilla files.

Kasper

You don't need an API mapper (which my application as well as the internal one (Simple API) actually are) to make API calls. You can in fact simply do a GET to, say, http://example.com/discussions.json or a POST to http://example.com/post.json/discussion. This should work for all controllers throughout Garden.

prakashraman

Thats great Didn't even know it existed. Where could I find the documentation for these REST calls ?

hgtonight

To the wiki!

http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net/index.php/Vanilla_API

prakashraman

Thanks These seem to be only READ apis right ? Can there any using which I create discussions ? As I'd like to create them automatically for each post.

hgtonight

You will have to figure out what data needs to be sent via a POST request for the discussion. You can figure out what is needed by opening /applications/vanilla/controllers/class.postcontroller.php and see what is checked in the Discussion() method.