Does subcollections() work?

[cboulanger]

Hi, probably I am doing something wrong, but I don't get subcollections to work:

const api = require('zotero-api-client');
const lib1  = api(process.env.ZOT_API_KEY).library("user",12345);
(async ()=>{
  let response = await lib1.subcollections().get();
  let collectionData = response.getData();
  console.log(collectionData);
})();

Expected result: JSON data for only the top-level collections
Actual result: JSON data for 25 random collections

[tnajdek]

subcollections can only be used when requesting collections existing underneath another collection. In the example you've posted it should be rejected (but isn't because #2 is not yet implemented) since you haven't specified a parent collection.

For top-level collections, the correct keyword is top, I believe in your example it would be lib1.collections().top().get().

An example where subcollections could be used, getting all subcollections living under a collection with a key "AABBCCDD":

lib1.collections("AABBCCDD").subcollections().get()

[cboulanger]

Yes, this worked! Thanks so much for your quick response. It might make sense to update the documentation on subcollections() so that "Should only be used in conjuction with both library() ..." is not misunderstood.