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RB: Edit Content Patching
Full, runnable src of Edit Content Patching can be downloaded as part of the RB tutorials repository.
title: How to edit a Post position: 5 exclude: true layout: main-script description: Patching changes to a post on Steem. main_script: tutorials-ruby/edit_content_patching.rb main_type: ruby main_script_anchor: Script —
Intro
This tutorial will show a technique for efficiently editing a post by only broadcasting changes to the post body.
Script
This script will take an existing post and append a new line by broadcasting a comment
operation containing a diff
instruction. This instruction will tell the blockchain to append new content to the end of the body
of the original comment.
Because this is a live example, we set broadcast
to false
so that it only runs if you modify the example and set broadcast
to true
.
As stated earlier, you will need to change broadcast
to true
. You can also set other values to test this script on other post:
wif
- The posting key of the author.author
- Name of the account that wrote the post we’re modifying.title
- Title of the post.permlink
- Leave this if thepermlink
is derived from the title or set it to the originalpermlink
if you want to modify the title independently from thepermlink
.
To Run
First, set up your workstation using the steps provided in Getting Started. Then you can create and execute the script (or clone from this repository):
git clone git@github.com:steemit/devportal-tutorials-rb.git
cd devportal-tutorials-rb/tutorials/12_edit_content_patching
bundle install
ruby edit_content_patching.rb
Example Output
Changes:
@@ -26,8 +26,26 @@
edited)
+%0AAppended content.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"result": {
"id": "f327acc1c51d907a9ba9bfac70e6fc9e99ab2865",
"block_num": 23035803,
"trx_num": 0,
"expired": false
},
"id": 1
}