Sometimes an API request returns {"comments":[]} and {"posts":[]} respectively, for a post and community, where posts and comments show up on the web frontend. Is that happening to any of you too? How do I handle it?

Edit: did some more testing, it’s most definitely a federation issue. If I query the instance that the post was made on for the comments, everything works fine. If I query my home instance, the result comes back empty.

Edit 2: As always, just after publicly showcasing my lack of programming abilities, I discover it’s been me the entire time. Make sure to await promises and to fetch posts from the correct instance, guys.

  • RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Edit: did some more testing, it’s most definitely a federation issue. If I query the instance that the post was made on for the comments, everything works fine.

    Oh, I ran into that. There is a post on !lemmycode@lemmy.ml even.

    You need to set the type_=All on fetching comments for a community that isn’t originated on your local server. You can just use that parameter when fetching comments from any post.