Retrieve an Idea

You can use this API request to retrieve an idea.

/services/v2/idea/[ideaId].json

You can use the following parameters in your retrieve an idea request:

Projection options: include, exclude, includeOnly
Other options: wrap, v1

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Permissions & Notes:

• You must have the View idea permission under Custom Roles in the Advanced Editor.

• With the includeOnly parameter set to id and name (/services/v2/idea/[ideaID].json?includeOnly=id,name) to the AnswerHub REST API.

• We added this request in version 1.6.3.5.

Sample Request

A GET retrieve an idea request to retrieve an idea (ideaId: 859) sent to https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com using a human-readable Username/Password (answerhub/test123) would look like this:

cURL

curl 
-u answerhub:test123
-H "Accept: application/json" 
-H "Content-type: application/json" 
-X GET "https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/idea/859.json" -v

Expected Response

Successful Response:
-HTTP Status 200 - OK

JSON

{
    "id": 859,
    "type": "idea",
    "creationDate": 1550517132000,
    "creationDateFormatted": "02/18/2019 07:12 PM",
    "title": "Idea to be Retrieved by the API",
    "body": "<div class=\"fr-view clearfix\"><p>This is a test idea to be retrieved by the API.</p></div>",
    "bodyAsHTML": "<div class=\"fr-view clearfix\"><p>This is a test idea to be retrieved by the API.</p></div>",
    "author": {
        "id": 7,
        "username": "dzone",
        "reputation": 54
    },
    "lastEditedAction": 1144,
    "activeRevisionId": 871,
    "revisionIds": [
        871
    ],
    "lastActiveUserId": 7,
    "lastActiveDate": 1550517132000,
    "attachments": [],
    "childrenIds": [],
    "commentIds": [],
    "marked": false,
    "topics": [
        {
            "id": 854,
            "creationDate": 1550516642000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "02/18/2019 07:04 PM",
            "name": "idea",
            "author": {
                "id": 7,
                "username": "dzone",
                "reputation": 54
            },
            "usedCount": 2,
            "getImmediateChildren": [],
            "getParents": []
        },
        {
            "id": 630,
            "creationDate": 1547066772000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "01/09/2019 08:46 PM",
            "name": "testing",
            "author": {
                "id": 43,
                "username": "Tom.Pryce",
                "reputation": 0
            },
            "usedCount": 9,
            "getImmediateChildren": [],
            "getParents": []
        }
    ],
    "primaryContainerId": 11,
    "containerIds": [
        7,
        11
    ],
    "slug": "idea-to-be-retrieved-by-the-api",
    "wiki": false,
    "score": 0,
    "depth": 0,
    "viewCount": 1,
    "upVoteCount": 0,
    "downVoteCount": 0,
    "nodeStates": []
}