Review Diff Comment Resource¶

Name	`diff_comment`
URI	`/api/review-requests/{review_request_id}/reviews/{review_id}/diff-comments/{comment_id}/`
Description	Provides information on diff comments made on a review. If the review is a draft, then comments can be added, deleted, or changed on this list. However, if the review is already published, then no changes can be made.
HTTP Methods	DELETE - Deletes the comment. GET - Returns information on the comment. PUT - Updates a diff comment.
Parent Resource	Review Diff Comment List Resource
Child Resources	None
Anonymous Access	Yes, if anonymous site access is enabled

Fields¶

Field	Type	Description
filediff	File Diff Resource	The per-file diff that the comment was made on.
first_line	Integer	The line number that the comment starts at.
id	Integer	The numeric ID of the comment.
interfilediff	File Diff Resource	The second per-file diff in an interdiff that the comment was made on. This will be `null` if the comment wasn’t made on an interdiff.
issue_opened	Boolean	Whether or not a comment opens an issue.
issue_status	One of `dropped`, `open`, `resolved`	The status of an issue.
num_lines	Integer	The number of lines the comment spans.
public	Boolean	Whether or not the comment is part of a public review.
text	String	The comment text.
timestamp	String	The date and time that the comment was made (in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format).
user	User Resource	The user who made the comment.

Links¶

Name	Method	Resource
delete	DELETE	Review Diff Comment Resource
self	GET	Review Diff Comment Resource
update	PUT	Review Diff Comment Resource

HTTP DELETE¶

Deletes the comment.

This will remove the comment from the review. This cannot be undone.

Only comments on draft reviews can be deleted. Attempting to delete a published comment will return a Permission Denied error.

Instead of a payload response, this will return HTTP 204 No Content.

Errors¶

HTTP GET¶

Returns information on the comment.

Errors¶

HTTP PUT¶

Updates a diff comment.

This can update the text or line range of an existing comment.

Request Parameters¶

Field	Type	Description
first_line (optional)	Integer	The line number the comment starts at.
issue_opened (optional)	Boolean	Whether or not the comment opens an issue.
issue_status (optional)	One of `dropped`, `open`, `resolved`	The status of an open issue.
num_lines (optional)	Integer	The number of lines the comment spans.
text (optional)	String	The comment text.

Errors¶

Examples¶

application/vnd.reviewboard.org.review-diff-comment+json¶

{
  "diff_comment": {
    "first_line": 12, 
    "id": 5, 
    "interfilediff": null, 
    "issue_opened": false, 
    "issue_status": "", 
    "links": {
      "delete": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/reviews/8/diff-comments/5/", 
        "method": "DELETE"
      }, 
      "filediff": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/diffs/3/files/41/", 
        "method": "GET", 
        "title": "/trunk/reviewboard/settings_local.py.tmpl (1797) -> /trunk/reviewboard/settings_local.py.tmpl ((working copy))"
      }, 
      "self": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/reviews/8/diff-comments/5/", 
        "method": "GET"
      }, 
      "update": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/reviews/8/diff-comments/5/", 
        "method": "PUT"
      }, 
      "user": {
        "href": "http://reviews.example.com/api/users/admin/", 
        "method": "GET", 
        "title": "admin"
      }
    }, 
    "num_lines": 3, 
    "public": true, 
    "text": "This is just a sample comment.", 
    "timestamp": "2010-08-22 17:25:41"
  }, 
  "stat": "ok"
}

application/vnd.reviewboard.org.review-diff-comment+xml¶

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rsp>
 <stat>ok</stat>
 <diff_comment>
  <issue_opened>0</issue_opened>
  <interfilediff>
  </interfilediff>
  <num_lines>3</num_lines>
  <links>
   <user>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/users/admin/</href>
    <method>GET</method>
    <title>admin</title>
   </user>
   <self>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/reviews/8/diff-comments/5/</href>
    <method>GET</method>
   </self>
   <filediff>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/diffs/3/files/41/</href>
    <method>GET</method>
    <title>/trunk/reviewboard/settings_local.py.tmpl (1797) -&gt; /trunk/reviewboard/settings_local.py.tmpl ((working copy))</title>
   </filediff>
   <update>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/reviews/8/diff-comments/5/</href>
    <method>PUT</method>
   </update>
   <delete>
    <href>http://reviews.example.com/api/review-requests/8/reviews/8/diff-comments/5/</href>
    <method>DELETE</method>
   </delete>
  </links>
  <timestamp>2010-08-22 17:25:41</timestamp>
  <public>1</public>
  <text>This is just a sample comment.</text>
  <first_line>12</first_line>
  <id>5</id>
  <issue_status></issue_status>
 </diff_comment>
</rsp>