From 77ba2db3fe0661bed9622971c3113e018cfc2652 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Williams <neil@reddit.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:01:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make POST_hide only allow Links through VByName.

Someone has been sending Comment fullnames to POST_hide and that
results in an error on our side and a 500 for them. They really
should be getting a proper error message back instead.
---
 r2/r2/controllers/api.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/r2/r2/controllers/api.py b/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
index 7b0da2677..94b810360 100755
--- a/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
+++ b/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
@@ -1725,7 +1725,7 @@ class ApiController(RedditController):
 
     @noresponse(VUser(),
                 VModhash(),
-                thing = VByName('id'))
+                thing = VByName('id', thing_cls=Link))
     @api_doc(api_section.links_and_comments)
     def POST_hide(self, thing):
         if not thing: return