Bug: Excluded categories for forum widget not working

[flob38]

Describe the bug Some categories which are in EXCLUDED_CATEGORIES are not excluded. Example : 23/03/22 13h55

https://forum.camptocamp.org/t/cherche-partenaire-alpi-4000m/295879

const EXCLUDED_CATEGORIES = [
  // https://forum.camptocamp.org/c/comments
  // document's comments
  29,
[...]
  // https://forum.camptocamp.org/c/partenaires/partenaires-alpinisme-cascade-de-glace
  // mountaineering buddy finder
  113,

I found this because I'm working on a widget which would show only "not mountaineering" categories (Site and Association, contributeurs...), but whatever changes I've done on the constant EXCLUDED_CATEGORIES, it stay still.

Reproduce On local server, delete all categories in the constant EXCLUDED_CATEGORIES, this change nothing on the result.

[flob38]

After searching on Discourse API, it seems that no parameter can be posted for the "latest" request. Filter must be done somehow on Discourse admin.

[flob38]

Désolée, je continue en français. L'url qui sert à aller chercher les derniers sujets du forum est la suivante : https://forum.camptocamp.org/latest.json?exclude_category_ids[]=29&exclude_category_ids[]=40&exclude_category_ids[]=41&exclude_category_ids[]=42&exclude_category_ids[]=43&exclude_category_ids[]=44&exclude_category_ids[]=45&exclude_category_ids[]=47&exclude_category_ids[]=54&exclude_category_ids[]=55&exclude_category_ids[]=56&exclude_category_ids[]=64&exclude_category_ids[]=94&exclude_category_ids[]=95&exclude_category_ids[]=96&exclude_category_ids[]=97&exclude_category_ids[]=113&exclude_category_ids[]=136&exclude_category_ids[]=146 Elle donne les mêmes résultats que https://forum.camptocamp.org/latest.json Pourtant un filtre supplémentaire est bien appliqué puisqu'on ne voit pas le bistrot ni les forums avec accès réservé. Pour le comment du pourquoi je ne sais pas.

[brunobesson]

We have an outdated version of discourse, however I couldn't find the exclude_category_ids param in the API? Did you find such thing @flob38?

@asaunier @cbeauchesne some hints?

[flob38]

We retrive topics with "latest" function. A piori, this function doesn't filter. https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Topics/operation/listLatestTopics

I've found a post where the syntax of the exclude_category_ids was mentionning : https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-endpoint-for-latest-topics-in-public-categories/118305 Reponse : call the API with an account that can't see private categories. Maybe it's the way we call Discourse API ?