I know that you could technically loop through the answers returned when you ask for /questions/{id} to see if an answer has been accepted, but it would be AWESOME if there was a top level boolean hasAccepted or something of that nature. How bout it, guys?
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There is "accepted_answer_id" for questions method. When there is no accepted answers,that field does not exists in returned JSON. So hasAccepted is the existance of "accepted_answer_id" field.
I am facing the same difficulty with API v3.
Let's say I have a set of 1000 questions, and I want to obtain all accepted answers for that set of questions.
I do not see an accepted_answer_id field in my api/v3/questions query results (see this post). As a result, I use the following approach:
- Iterate through each question in the set
- Get all answers for this question (
api/v3/questions/{question_id}/answers)- If an answer has
isAccepted == True, remember it for this question
- If an answer has
- Get all answers for this question (
but this is very slow for large (1000+) question sets.
A faster solution might be a combination of the following:
- Fix/enhance API v3 to return the
accepted_answer_idfield in question queries. - Support some way to bulk-retrieve answers by ID (e.g.,
api/v3/answers/...)
