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Peter Boomsma
Peter Boomsma

Reputation: 9836

How to find the threadID of a Azure Pull Request?

I'm trying to post a comment on a PR using the Azure API in Powershell.

I've found this resource: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/git/pull%20request%20thread%20comments/create?view=azure-devops-rest-5.0

And I've implemented it:

$postURL = "https://dev.azure.com/$organization/$project/_apis/git/repositories/$repositoryId/pullRequests/$pullRequestId/threads/$threadId/comments?api-version=5.0"
$prComment = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $postURL -Headers @{Authorization = $pat} -Body $body

When I run this with $threadId = 1 I get:

Invoke-RestMethod : {"$id":"1","innerException":null,"message":"The requested> pull request comment thread '1' cannot be found.

When I run it with $threadId = 0 I get:

Invoke-RestMethod : {"$id":"1","innerException":null,"message":"The value 0 is outside of the allowed range

This is a image of the comment section of the pull request with id 1:

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So what is the thread id of a PR?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1203

Answers (1)

Peter Boomsma
Peter Boomsma

Reputation: 9836

I figured out by using the API:

https://dev.azure.com/$organization/$project/_apis/git/repositories/$repositoryId/pullRequests/$pullRequestId/threads?api-version=5.0

You can get a list of threads for that PR. Each line in the comment section represents a thread. And where I thought that thread id is linked to the PR (ie. created by PB is thread id 1 inside that PR), it is not. Each new thread increments the thread id. So if I add a thread in a different PR it could have thread id 231. If I add another thread in a different PR it will have id 232. Which is quite annoying. I can't understand why Azure would implement it this way.

Upvotes: 1

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