Know if a resource has been liked

[Peter]

Hi

In your API you provide a way to like and a way to unlike a resource, but you do not provide a way to know if the user has already liked tge resource (let's say a friend's status update) in order to provide him the choice to unlike it; am I missing something?

[Jeff]

There will be tag <liked>true</liked>, which will be present in the XML of the resource if the thing is liked.

If it's not liked, the tag will not be there.

[Peter]

Great. Thank you!

[Peter]

I just tried out the updates.friends and user.show method for updates and had two issues:
- there is no id field for the updates (unless it's the integer at the end of the url)
- I did not get the tag for updates I already liked through the website

Can you help?

[Ettore]

it might not be part of those api responses. Can you please post those two responses? Make sure to black out sensitive info.

[Peter]

Here it is




(I liked the first "readstatus" update on GoodReads but there is no "liked" tag, nor an ID to be able to like it using the API)

[[deleted user]]

Thanks Peter. Looks like is not getting included. I'll open a ticket for that.

As for the id field, to like an update's resource, the like should happen on the resource, not the update. For example, if there's an update for a read_status, you'd need to pass the read_status id to the like api endpoint. You'll notice inside your posted output that there is an node inside ...that's what you would use.

[Peter]

Understood, thanks!

[Paul]

Hi, i'll like to say that the "friend" update type is not comming with a review id, so i can't get liked an update of this type.

[Ettore]

Hi Paul, for friendship types, the element describes the resource that one can like. So, look for the under that node. Review id is not related to friendships.