Add a Comment - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external

You can add comments to both folders and files. This is part of the collaboration features that exists around nodes. There is also like/unlike and tagging of nodes.

Comments are added to nodes with the following POST call: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/{id}/comments

The Node Identifier for the folder or file node to add the comment to is specified with the {id} parameter. Then a POST body is created with the comment as follows:

{   
  "content": "This is a comment" 
}

It’s possible to add more than one comment at a time as follows:

[
    {
     "content": "This is a comment"
    },
    {
     "content": "This is another comment"
    }
]

Let’s look at an example of how to add a comment to a file (it would be done in the same way for a folder).

Let’s assume we have a file with the 7279b5c5-da55-4e98-8b12-72d33b90c810 Node Identifier, the call would then look like this:

$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Basic VElDS0VUXzA4ZWI3ZTJlMmMxNzk2NGNhNTFmMGYzMzE4NmNjMmZjOWQ1NmQ1OTM=' -d '{ "content": "This is a comment" }' 'http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/7279b5c5-da55-4e98-8b12-72d33b90c810/comments'  | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   544    0   510  100    34    717     47 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-* 764
{
  "entry": {
    "createdAt": "2019-12-03T09:32:54.803+0000",
    "createdBy": {
      "enabled": true,
      "firstName": "Administrator",
      "email": "admin@alfresco.com",
      "emailNotificationsEnabled": true,
      "company": {},
      "id": "admin"
    },
    "edited": false,
    "modifiedAt": "2019-12-03T09:32:54.803+0000",
    "canEdit": true,
    "modifiedBy": {
      "enabled": true,
      "firstName": "Administrator",
      "email": "admin@alfresco.com",
      "emailNotificationsEnabled": true,
      "company": {},
      "id": "admin"
    },
    "canDelete": true,
    "id": "cace6ed3-1e57-4690-86eb-d9bce01257cf",
    "content": "This is a comment"
  }
}

The response contains more information about the added comment, such as its Node Identifier (i.e. id).