Posting programmatically

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Hi Everyone,

I want to have a job running in my system that automatically posts new topics into JForum, based on certain events.

It doesn't appear that JForum was really designed for headless operation. I was wondering if anyone out there has done tis before, and if so, how. Was it just JDBC? Is there something more fancy I should try. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Joe
[originally posted on jforum.net by Mojo]

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Yeah, we don't have a public API for this, although this is being fixed on the CVS.

The easier way for you would be to send an HTTP request to the actions - that would ensure that all required data, like HttpRequest, Database connection and JForumExecutionContext are correctly set.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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I see how the http works but what if we want to first check and see if a post exists?

For example my site has information about zoning. I want users to discuss these zoning cases. The first time the link would say:

"Create a new discussion"

If there are postings I want to say:

"xx messages -- click to read"

How do I programatically determine if a post exists?

Mark
[originally posted on jforum.net by conquest]

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[originally posted on jforum.net by adam]

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Hmmm .. right don't understand that reply

Certainly this is a common request. I assume I have to use some freemarker templating stuff. So add a few new .htm pages and use them as includes in my jsp?

Update:

Ok so I've been digging through the templates. The first thing I want to do is start a new post. So I see I can have this url to do that:

http://www.mysite.com/fcforums/jforum.page?module=posts&action=insert&forum_id=19&subject=zoning

Now what I want to do is pass the subject in the url as above. Does this require changing the following:

config/urlPattern.properties
src/net/jforum/view/forum/PostAction.java


[originally posted on jforum.net by conquest]

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You don't have to change anything. Just pass all parameters. For example:

jforum.page?module=posts&action=insertSave&message=test&subject=bleh&...

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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edit: Ok I'm switching gears a bit. After some thought over night, what I really would like to do is post a message automatically and then (important piece) get the id of that new posting so I can store it in my database.

What's the easiest way to accomplish this?



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Well I'm talking about pre-populating the form, so changing from post to get won't change this.

Sorry not sure I was clear in the previous post
[originally posted on jforum.net by conquest]

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I tried that passing subject ... But the subject field is not populated in the new topic page.

Rafael Steil wrote:You don't have to change anything. Just pass all parameters. For example:

jforum.page?module=posts&action=insertSave&message=test&subject=bleh&...

Rafael

[originally posted on jforum.net by conquest]

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What I suggest then is to edit post_form.htm and change the <form> to use GET instead of post. Then grab the query string and try using it!

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Make a change in the insertSave() method of the PostAction.java class, to add the id to some place (the request / session/) where you can get from.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to find out if the API was still under development to expose this functionality. For the OP, I am doing something similar, in posting foreign-data into one of my forums programmatically. The algorithm I used was as follows:

1) create a topic, and save it
2) create a post and save it
3) associate this post id as the first post in the topic, then update the topic
4) use the TopicRepository to update the topic cache
5) assumably, you would update the forum cache through the ForumRepository, but I'm having trouble doing this correctly atm
[originally posted on jforum.net by uniq]

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That's the best approach so far, in fact.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]