Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 7

I’m still making good albeit slow progress on the Posts Endpoint.  While the Posts Endpoint doesn’t have a lot of methods the complexity of the send and the return data is far greater than the other endpoints I’ve done so far.  Posts have more than just text.  They can have polls, geolocation data, mentions, aspects management, and photos.  Yet posts are the core of the whole system.  They are the digital elements we interact with the most.  So progress on this endpoint is crucial.  I’m pleased to say that at this point I’ve made enough progress with the unit tests and the test harness that from an external application I have been able to do have an external program do the full lifecycle of posting: Create a post, read a post, comment on a post, and like a post.  I’m pretty stoked about that!  While I have the full complement of all post data available on the GET method tested, I still have to create the test harness test methods around pushing posts with ancillary data (location, polls, mentions, photos), and need to write the unit tests for photos as well.  The Photos endpoint for uploading photos during a real post creation process is a whole other matter though, but we’ll get to it soon enough!