discussion_topics order_by recent_activity -- most recent last?

Question

With regard to

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/discussion_topics.html#method.discussion_topics.index

and the order_by=recent_activity - it appears to return results with the oldest posts first. Is there a way to reverse the order (and why would it do this!)?

/api/v1/courses/:course_id/discussion_topics?order_by=recent_activity

dtod · Answer

Thank you. I hadn't thought about that, partly because this was for an MS Power Automate flow.

I would have to make a request, then extract the last page, and then request that if there are a lot of topics. I guess I could just request 100 results on the assumption that no sane course would have that many topics....but not sure that's a good assumption.

I went with the default order (by position) fwiw.

michael5 · Answer

I got a feeling you already know but if it's an option to add a script to handle the data you can just use a JS .reverse() method on the data array.