Updating items to be read does not seem to work

[cowens]

I am hitting:

https://theoldreader.com/reader/api/0/edit-tag?i=51d133b76f48eae654007b69&a=user/-/state/com.google/read

and getting back a response of

OK

but item 51d133b76f48eae654007b69 is still unread. I am getting the id from the id field of the response from

https://theoldreader.com/reader/api/0/stream/items/ids?output=json&s=user/-/label/comics&xt=user/-/state/com.google/read

I think the id is good based on the fact that when I fetch the content with

https://theoldreader.com/reader/api/0/stream/items/contents?output=json&i=51d133b76f48eae654007b69

it is the content I expect.

[krasnoukhov]

Are you sure you are sending parameters as x-www-form-urlencoded? Unfortunately multipart/form-data isn't supported.

[cowens]

No, I was taking whatever the default was. I will try again when I am in front of a computer. There is still the issue of sending a response that says "OK" when nothing has been done. I would have expected an error like "can't find id parameter, is your request x-www-form-urlencoded?" On Jul 1, 2013 5:28 AM, "Dmitry Krasnoukhov" notifications@github.com wrote:

Are you sure you are sending parameters as x-www-form-urlencoded? Unfortunately multipart/form-data isn't supported.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/krasnoukhov/theoldreader-api/issues/3#issuecomment-20271436 .

[cowens]

Yep, that seems to work. So the bug is that you say OK when you shouldn't, not that marking as read doesn't work. On Jul 1, 2013 5:28 AM, "Dmitry Krasnoukhov" notifications@github.com wrote:

Are you sure you are sending parameters as x-www-form-urlencoded? Unfortunately multipart/form-data isn't supported.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/krasnoukhov/theoldreader-api/issues/3#issuecomment-20271436 .

[krasnoukhov]

Sure, you are right, I've added parameters verification with corresponding error results.

[DanielSundberg]

This was closed over a year ago as fixed. However, I still get 'ok' as result but no error message trying the same command as in the initial post.

[jfiorato]

Would you be able to send your code so we can investigate?

[DanielSundberg]

Yes I know, very late to get back 2 years later. having another go at this and is stuck at the same place:

markAsRead(auth: string, id: string) {
    const params = {
        // output: 'json',
        a: 'user/-/state/com.google/read',
        i: 'tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/' + id
    };
    let path = '/reader/api/0/edit-tag';
    const contentParams = this.serialize(params);
    const itemContentUrl = path + '?' + contentParams;
    let response = fetch(itemContentUrl, {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: new Headers({
            'Accept': 'application/json',
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
            'Authorization': 'GoogleLogin auth=' + auth,
        }),
    });
    return response;
}
private serialize(obj: {}) {
   var str = [];
   for (var p in obj) {
        if (obj.hasOwnProperty(p)) {
            str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
        }
    }
    return str.join('&');
}

localhost:3000 proxies calls to The Old Reader, works for all other API calls so guess this is not the problem.

[DanielSundberg]

Looks like the params should be in the body, thought I tried that but must have gotten something wrong that time, this code is working:

    async markAsRead(auth: string, id: string) {
        const bodyParams = { 
            a: 'user/-/state/com.google/read',
            i: 'tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/' + id,
        };
        let path = '/reader/api/0/edit-tag';
        let response = fetch(path, {
            method: 'POST',
            headers: new Headers({
                'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8',
                'Authorization': 'GoogleLogin auth=' + auth,
            }),
            body: this.serialize(bodyParams)
        });
        return response;
    }

[DanielSundberg]

I still think that I should not have gotten OK in my snippet above. Took my some hours to figure this out.