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ShallowQuote

Represents a quote or a quote placeholder, with the current authorization status.

    • Example
    • Attributes
      • state
      • status_id
    • See also

Example

{
  "state": "accepted",
  "status_id": "103270115826048975"
}

Attributes

state

Description: The state of the quote.
Type: String (Enumerable, oneOf)
pending = The quote has not been acknowledged by the quoted account yet, and requires authorization before being displayed.
accepted = The quote has been accepted and can be displayed. This is the only case where status_id is non-null.
rejected = The quote has been explicitly rejected by the quoted account, and cannot be displayed.
revoked = The quote has been previously accepted, but is now revoked, and thus cannot be displayed.
deleted = The quote has been approved, but the quoted post itself has now been deleted.
unauthorized = The quote has been approved, but cannot be displayed because the user is not authorized to see it. Version history:
4.4.0 - added

status_id

Description: The identifier of the status being quoted, if the quote has been accepted. This will be null, unless the state attribute is accepted.
Type: nullable String (cast from an integer but not guaranteed to be a number) or null
Version history:
4.4.0 - added

See also

Quote
app/serializers/rest/shallow_quote_serializer.rb

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