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so "path" is a decimal separated list of comment ids? docs say nothing, but it looks like that.
Yes. See here.
chiming in here because I’m trying to figure this out too. If there’s say, thousands of comments, and I don’t want to get all of them at once, how would I sort them based off the path? I don’t want to miss any replies to comments that are loaded, and it doesn’t appear that comments returned are sorted or grouped together in any way by default
interesting question. do you mean because if you use limit, and as results are returned unsorted, you might end up with children comments without their parents? have you actually had a go using limit to fetch from your 1000s of comments?
Yep exactly, I tested it and I do end up with orphaned comments no matter what I set as "limit" or "sort" (as long as limit is less than the total amount of comments). It's my guess that fetching a large list of comments would be slower than fetching a few, otherwise I'd just get all the comments in one go.