Improvement to adding posts

web/main.go

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ func main() {
 
 		posts, err := database.GetPosts(db, threadId)
 		if err != nil {
-			http.Error(w, "Failed to get thread posts", http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			http.Error(w, "Failed to get posts", http.StatusInternalServerError)
 			log.Printf("Failed to get thread %q posts: %v", threadIdStr, err)
 			return
 		}
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ func main() {
 		slug := chi.URLParam(r, "slug")
 		threads, err := database.GetThreads(db, slug)
 		if err != nil {
-			http.Error(w, "Failed to get board threads", http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			http.Error(w, "Failed to get threads", http.StatusInternalServerError)
 			log.Printf("GetThreads: %v", err)
 			return
 		}
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func main() {
 		for _, thread := range threads {
 			posts, err := database.GetPosts(db, thread.Id)
 			if err != nil {
-				http.Error(w, "Error getting thread posts", http.StatusBadRequest)
+				http.Error(w, "Failed to get posts", http.StatusBadRequest)
 				log.Printf("GetPosts: %v", err)
 				return
 			}
@@ -198,6 +198,34 @@ func main() {
 		views.ThreadsCatalog(previews).Render(r.Context(), w)
 	})
 
+	// THREAD POSTS
+	r.Get("/hx/{slug}/threads/{threadId}/posts", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		// slug := chi.URLParam(r, "slug")
+		// TODO: use relative thread_nums (see issue #1)
+		threadIdStr := chi.URLParam(r, "threadId")
+		threadId, err := strconv.Atoi(threadIdStr)
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, "Invalid thread id", http.StatusBadRequest)
+			return
+		}
+
+		posts, err := database.GetPosts(db, threadId)
+		if err != nil {
+			http.Error(w, "Failed to get posts", http.StatusBadRequest)
+			log.Printf("GetPosts: %v", err)
+			return
+		}
+
+		if len(posts) == 0 {
+			http.Error(w, "Malformed thread", http.StatusInternalServerError)
+			log.Printf("Thread %d has no posts", threadId)
+			return
+		}
+
+		// dont pass the op post. only replies
+		views.ThreadPosts(posts[1:]).Render(r.Context(), w)
+	})
+
 	// -----------------
 
 	fmt.Println("Listening on :8080")

web/views/thread.templ

@@ -7,16 +7,34 @@ import (
 "strconv"
 )
 
+templ ThreadPosts(posts []database.Post) {
+for _, post := range (posts) {
+<article class="post">
+	<header class="post-header">
+		<span class="post-author">{ post.Author }</span>
+		<span class="post-date">{ post.CreatedAt.Format("01/02/2006") }</span>
+		<span class="post-time">{ post.CreatedAt.Format("15:04") }</span>
+		<span class="post-num">No. { strconv.Itoa(post.Id) }</span>
+	</header>
+	<section>
+		<p>{ post.Body }</p>
+	</section>
+</article>
+}
+}
+
 templ Thread(board database.Board, thread database.Thread, posts []database.Post) {
 @shared.Layout() {
 @BoardHeader(board)
 <div class="new-post-container">
-	<form id="newPostForm" hx-swap="none" hx-post={ fmt.Sprintf("/%s/threads/%d", board.Slug, thread.Id) }>
+	<form id="newPostForm" hx-swap="none" hx-post={ fmt.Sprintf("/%s/threads/%d", board.Slug, thread.Id) } _="on htmx:afterRequest 
+			set #newPostBody.value to ''
+			then trigger refreshPosts on body">
 		<table>
 			<tbody>
 				<tr class="new-post-form-field">
 					<th>Comment</th>
-					<td><textarea name="body" required></textarea></td>
+					<td><textarea id="newPostBody" name="body" required></textarea></td>
 				</tr>
 			</tbody>
 		</table>
@@ -36,19 +54,8 @@ templ Thread(board database.Board, thread database.Thread, posts []database.Post
 			<p>{ posts[0].Body }</p>
 		</section>
 	</article>
-	for _, post := range (posts[1:]) {
+	<div hx-get={ fmt.Sprintf("/hx/%s/threads/%d/posts", board.Slug, thread.Id) }
-	<article class="post">
+		hx-trigger="load, refreshPosts from:body"></div>
-		<header class="post-header">
-			<span class="post-author">{ post.Author }</span>
-			<span class="post-date">{ post.CreatedAt.Format("01/02/2006") }</span>
-			<span class="post-time">{ post.CreatedAt.Format("15:04") }</span>
-			<span class="post-num">No. { strconv.Itoa(post.Id) }</span>
-		</header>
-		<section>
-			<p>{ post.Body }</p>
-		</section>
-	</article>
-	}
 </div>
 }
 }