POSTing an annotation does not return its ID

[roidelapluie]

When we POST an annotation with the http api

It would be great to get the ID of the new annotation in the response

[natalysheinin]

@roidelapluie can you include which files I can look at to get started since this is marked beginner friendly?

[roidelapluie]

@nadezhdamosunova Welcome!

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/pkg/api/annotations.go is a good start.

[mozey]

So for returning the ID there are two options?

• Change parameters for ApiSuccess fn so the ID can be passed in
• Make ID a part of the message string and the client has to parse it

The first requires many changes in various files and the second seems like a hack. Is there another option?

[torkelo]

You can return an ok message and an id, done in a few other places, like when creating a new datasource

[torkelo]

for reference use this: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/pkg/api/datasources.go#L123