README.md

Threaded-Comments-API-Server

Comment Thread API Server using Django and DRF

Functionalities

• Get all the comments and their respective replies on a page
• Add a comment or a reply (sub comment)
• Edit a comment or a reply
• Delete a comment or the whole thread. (The whole thread gets deleted if the parent comment is deleted)

Technologies used

• Framework: Django
• Rest API: Django Rest Framework
• database: PostgresSql

Endpoint for different functionalities

Get all comments: http://localhost:8000 or http://localhost:8000/get_all_comments

Create a new comment: http://localhost:8000/create_comment/

• Create a new comment:

# input
{ 
    "comment_body": "hello",
    "is_sub_comment": 0,  # Boolean (Only True when comment is a reply)
    "parent_id": -1    # if the comment itself is the parent, set parent_id = -1

}

• Add a reply:

# input
{ 
    "comment_body": "hello",
    "is_sub_comment": 1,
    "parent_id": 3  # the ID of the parent comment

}

Edit a comment: http://localhost:8000/edit_comment/

# input
{
 "comment_id": 5,
 "comment_body": "hello2",
}

Delete a comment: http://localhost:8000/delete_comment/

# input
{
  "comment_id": 5
}