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how to build a comment tree from the lemmy API? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i have requests to fetch comment and post data, but i'm struggling to work out how to build a tree from the responses? do i fetch comments with arg parent_id to get a comment's children, and do so recursively for those comments returned that themselves have comments?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

interesting question. do you mean because if you use limit, and as results are returned unsorted, you might end up with children comments without their parents? have you actually had a go using limit to fetch from your 1000s of comments?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yep exactly, I tested it and I do end up with orphaned comments no matter what I set as "limit" or "sort" (as long as limit is less than the total amount of comments). It's my guess that fetching a large list of comments would be slower than fetching a few, otherwise I'd just get all the comments in one go.