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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] 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.