Re: How to post a reply to a comment

[Greg Robbins]

From the documentation, it looks like you can just add a link on the comment entry being uploaded.

GDataLink *link = [GDataLink linkWithRel:kGDataLinkYouTubeInReplyTo

  type:kGDataLinkTypeAtom

  href:priorCommentHref]

[newCommentEntry addLink:link];

https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_comments#Adding_a_comment_reply

At this point, though, apps should not be built with the GData library and the old XML YouTube API. The newer JSON API and Objective-C library are more efficient and easier to use.

[Mike Jones]

Thanks for the quick response, Greg.  I found the page you referenced, but I'm not using the old XML API, I'm using the gdata-objective-c-client in iOS found here (http://code.google.com/p/gdata-objectivec-client/).  Is that not the recommended toolkit to use?  And yet the snippet you provided is exactly what I needed.  I took the code from this forum posting that you authored previously (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gdata-objectivec-client/a2mln6iQyK0/BjapQOLrBbIJ) and simply added the extra link reference to 'newCommentEntry' and it worked.

[Greg Robbins]

The current Objective-C library for Google JSON APIs, including the latest YouTube API (v3), is https://code.google.com/p/google-api-objectivec-client/

[Mike Jones]

Holy crap, I have to start over!  I downloaded that SDK as well, but saw "experimental" next to API 3.0 and decided it was, well, experimental.  I guess I'll have more questions soon.  Thanks.

[Greg Robbins]

I apologize for the confusion. I have updated the GData Objective-C library project's home page to make the status of each API more apparent.