This happens for me on a small number of posts, and is generally repeatable, even when the website shows comments.

For instance, running on lemmy.world, GetPost(id: 290602) tells me the post exists and has 7 comments, as does https://lemmy.world/post/290602

But GetComments(postId: 290602) returns an empty list.

If I run against the original post on ‘programming.dev’, GetComments(postId: 99912) does show me the comments, but I don’t think I’m supposed to be second guessing the federating logic :-)

Has anyone seen anything similar or can confirm they see this same behaviour for this post?

  • nmtakeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hi! The first curl example doesn’t seem to work - it fetches comments but they are not relevant to https://lemmy.world/post/290602 :

    > curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "https://lemmy.world/api/v3/comment/list?limit=10&postId=290602" | jq -c '.comments[] | [.post.id, .comment.id, community.name]'
[484044,486431,"nostupidquestions"]
[455772,486976,"giftofgaming"]
...
[485477,486428,"outoftheloop"]
[484044,485717,"nostupidquestions"]

    It seems that we need to set type_ parameter like this:

    > curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "https://lemmy.world/api/v3/comment/list?limit=10&post_id=290602&type_=All" | jq -c '.comments[] | [.post.id, .comment.id, community.
name]'
[290602,484328,"programmer_humor"]
[290602,374758,"programmer_humor"]
...
[290602,355277,"programmer_humor"]
[290602,345799,"programmer_humor"]