comment.replies not working consistently about redd HOT 4 OPEN

That's a relief! I'll leave this open until I release a more substantial fix.

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Don't worry about it, working with the reddit API has more than trained me to deal with vagueness and inconsistency 😉. After doing some research, this may be a combination of issues on both reddit's and my end.

Temporary Fix (?)

Could you try comment.reload and then see if that loads the comments? If it does, I can be sure that the issue is what I think it is. Thanks a lot for your help!

Details

I'll describe this in intense detail to help anyone in the future struggling with this obscure aspect of the reddit API.

All comment (t1) objects have an attribute called replies. If the comment has replies, it's a Listing. If the comment has no replies or if the replies aren't included in this response (like from a /api/info call) the replies key is an empty string, instead of an empty listing or just null like a sane API. Reddit's mobile website does a sort of check as well (commentTreeUtils.js).

Redd assumed that an empty string meant no comments, which is clearly incorrect.

• see reddit/reddit#662
• see https://redd.it/17s9l4

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reload works! Thanks so much.

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Hi @avinashbot, any updates on this? I'm having a similar issue on master and reloading the comment doesn't fix it.

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