Should I use the API or call the Library directly to create post content programmatically?

[pjclas]

So hopefully I can explain this well enough...

I am programmatically generating a thread and from what I can see I can do this in two ways:

1. Call the API interface to add text content - I thought this would be the right approach, but it required a session and did a bunch of session validation I didn't want or need.
2. Call the Library directly - This seems to avoid most of the need for a session until the afterAdd() method is called which eventually calls validate() when generating a route (while attempting to send moderator emails). The validate again requires a session.

So either way it appears that I have to generate a session (which I did using vB_Session_Cli), but I'd rather not have to create a session if I don't need to.

However, my question ultimately becomes, if I have to create a session in either case, which method would be considered the more "correct" method to creating a thread programmatically. I guess I would lean toward the first method since it performs a lot more verification. However, if I don't need that verification then it just adds unnecessary overhead... I did see a comment in content.php indicating in order to avoid hvinput validation, call the library directly instead, which is what led me down that path.

Any thoughts on this?

Also, this is a bit more tedious then it used to be to create a thread using the datamanager in vb4... so maybe I'm missing something even easier?

[glennrocksvb]

Try using the mobile API. I was able to use it to programmatically register a user in vB5. Note that you need to generate an API key in AdminCP > vBulletin API > API Key.

http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/conte...334-mobile-api

[pjclas]

Try using the mobile API. I was able to use it to programmatically register a user in vB5. Note that you need to generate an API key in AdminCP > vBulletin API > API Key.

http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/conte...334-mobile-api

Is that the direction we are supposed to be taking? Seems like an unnecessary http request when called from in code. Or can I call these Apis without generating an http request? Oh and I also don't want to have to be logged in since this is running via a cron job daily. Although I do already create a dummy session with my current approach.

[glennrocksvb]

Is that the direction we are supposed to be taking? Seems like an unnecessary http request when called from in code. Or can I call these Apis without generating an http request? Oh and I also don't want to have to be logged in since this is running via a cron job daily. Although I do already create a dummy session with my current approach.

Ok then mobile API is not good in this case as it is normally used for clients outside vBulletin.

[pjclas]

Ok then mobile API is not good in this case as it is normally used for clients outside vBulletin.

Right that's what I thought. So back to my original question then.