Update a comment with rich text HTML via REST API

[DanielBr21]

I can successfully create a comment (as seen in Workfront UI Updates section) of an Issue with this REST API call using v20

```

curl --location 'https://SUBDOMAIN.workfront.com/attask/api/v20.0/note' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: ••••••' \
--data '{
"objID": "68d2c7fe00911872fc05f2e559650090",
"objCode": "NOTE",
"html": "Hello <b>World</b> from Postman JSON 1",
"noteText": "Hello Plain from Postman JSON 1",
"noteObjCode": "OPTASK",
"json": "{}"
}'

```

The problem is updating a comment (with or without a nested comment). I can only update the plain text noteText, the HTML is not overwritten. Since Adobe Workfront UI only displays the HTML comment this update is not displaying!!

```

curl --location --request PUT 'https://SUBDOMAIN.workfront.com/attask/api/v20.0/note/68d43bd6004d01abe8f85c5726e94108' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: ••••••' \
--data '{
"objID": "68d2c7fe00911872fc05f2e559650090",
"objCode": "NOTE",
"html": "Hello <b>World</b> from Postman JSON 2",
"noteText": "Hello Plain from Postman JSON 2",
"noteObjCode": "OPTASK",
"json": "{}"
}'

```

I also tried sending the rich text format in Draft.js JSON

```

curl --location --request PUT 'https://SUBDOMAIN.workfront.com/attask/api/v20.0/note/68d43bd6004d01abe8f85c5726e94108' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: ••••••' \
--data '{
"objID": "68d2c7fe00911872fc05f2e559650090",
"objCode": "NOTE",

"noteObjCode": "OPTASK",
"noteText": "Update 3",
"json": "{\"blocks\":[{\"key\":\"some_random_key\",\"text\":\"Update 3\",\"type\":\"unstyled\",\"depth\":0,\"inlineStyleRanges\":[],\"entityRanges\":[],\"data\":{}}],\"entityMap\":{}}"
}'

```

[DanielBr21]

@lgaertner I see you and @ignatius_dilip discussed a similar issue https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-questions/add-task-comments-via-rest-api/... .

[DanielBr21]

This guide is also helpful for Draft.js JSON format of HTML https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/workfront/using/adobe-workfront-api/api-general-informati...

[Srinija_N]

We used Draft.js to HTML and fixed the text patterns which has paragraph breaks accordingly.

[DanielBr21 · Accepted solution]

I got this to work by reverse engineering the Workfront UI using their GraphQL endpoint

curl --location 'https://SUBDOMAIN.workfront.com/comments/api/graphql' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: ••••••' \
--data '{"variables":{"data":{"commentID":"68d5855900024794261c45be7626bf51","contentHTML":"<p class=\"react-spectrum-RichTextEditor-paragraph\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Hello 11:13</span></p>","content":"Hello 11:13","tags":[],"attachments":[]}},"query":"mutation ($data: InputEditData) {\n  editComment(data: $data) {\n    attachments {\n      id\n      name\n      type\n      __typename\n    }\n    contentHTML\n    content\n    tags {\n      id\n      objCode\n      __typename\n    }\n    metadata\n    modified\n    modifiedBy\n    lastModifiedAt\n    __typename\n  }\n}"}'