Drupal 8 Forums with REST

forums.md

##Drupal 8 REST End Points and Examples

Headers

• Content-Type = application/hal+json
• X-CSRF-Token = http://d8.dev/rest/session/token
• Authorization = Basic Auth
• Accept = application/hal+json

####POST to Forums

POST new thread into Forum "Cars"

{
  "_links": {
    "type": {
      "href": "http://d8.dev/rest/type/node/forum?_format=hal_json"
    }
  },
  "type":[{"target_id":"forum"}],
  "title": [{
    "value": "Track days are why saturdays exist."
  }],
  "taxonomy_forums": [{
      "target_id": "19"
  }],
  "body":[{
      "value": "<p>Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod.</p>"
  }]
}

POST Comment into thread

{
   "_links":{
      "type":{
         "href":"http://d8.dev/rest/type/comment/comment"
      },
      "http://d8.dev/rest/relation/comment/comment/entity_id":[
         {
            "href":"http://d8.dev/node/76?_format=hal_json"
         }
      ],
      "http://d8.dev/rest/relation/comment/comment/uid":[
         {
            "href":"http://d8.dev/users/11?_format=hal_json",
            "lang":"en"
         }
      ]
   },

  "uid":[{"target_id":11}],
  "entity_id":[{"target_id":"76"}],
  "entity_type":[{"value":"node"}],
  "comment_type":[{"target_id":"comment"}],
  "subject":[{"value":"This is a comment"}],
  "field_name": [
{
"value": "comment_forum"
}
],
  "comment_body":[
    {"value":"<p>Fill me up with you comments!</p>","format":"basic_html"}
  ]
}