New Web Service mod_forum_add_discussion_post

Create a course with visible groups enabled (do not force groups) Enrol two users as student in the course Add the users to different groups Create 3 different forums in that course Forum 1: Without groups (Create a discussion with one of the students) Forum 2: With visible groups enabled (Create one discussion with each student) Forum 3: With separate groups enabled (Create one discussion with each student) Create two groups in the course As admin, enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► Mobile Create tokens for the two users: Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with one of the users. You need to replace the wstoken, postid (the first post in the discussion (created in step 5, we need the post id not the discussion id)) and the URL of your moodle instance curl 'http://localhost/m/stable_master/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'postid=53&wsfunction=mod_forum_add_discussion_post&subject=Hi&message=hello&wstoken=ffbe3a3002f235bf9d01fd9369e10b66' | python -m "json.tool" Check that the post was created in the Moodle web interface Check in the activity logs that there are new entries with origin WS: Post created and Some content has been posted. Repeat the curl call but using the other user token verify that the message is also created Run the same curl request but using the postid of the forum using visible groups (use the token of the user that created the post) Verify the post is created Run the same command but replacing the user token with the other user token You should receive a nopostforum error since you are trying to post in a discussion that belongs to a different group Run the same command but replacing the postid with the id of a post created by the same user that the one the token belongs to Verify the post is created Repeat the 6 last steps with the separate groups forum Now as teacher or admin create a new discussion in the news forum Run the curl request with a student token replacing the postid with the postid for the new announcement created: You should get an exception: nopostforum