# GET /api/v2/comments/{comment}

Read a comment

- MCP id: comments.show
- Scope: api:read:project_management
- Scope: api:read:project_drive
- Scope: api:read:customer_drive
- Scope: api:read:organization_drive
- Scope: api:read:user_drive
- Permission: project_management::view_backlog
- Rate cost: 1 unit, read bucket.
- Cache-Control: private, no-store

Returns one comment in the detail view, reachable by id from either parent.

The `commentable_type` / `commentable_id` pair names the record it hangs off; the commentable itself is a reference and is not expandable. Reading a comment requires being able to read its parent, so the permission depends on what the comment hangs off: `project_management::view_backlog` (checked as `project_management::manage_work_items`) for a comment on a work item, and the drive prefix's access permission (`project_drive::access`, `customer_drive::access`, `organization_drive::access` or `user_drive::access`, whichever the document sits under) for a comment on a drive item. The token must cover that same prefix: a token without it gets `404`, not `403`. Comments are hard-deleted, so a deleted one is simply 404 and `trashed` is not an accepted parameter.

## Parameters
- comment (integer, path): The Comment's numeric id.
- view (string, optional): Which field set to render.
- X-Request-Id (header, optional): A correlation id of your own. It is recorded in our logs next to the server's request id but never returned: the response header always carries the server's id. A value that does not match the pattern is discarded silently, never rejected.
- If-None-Match (header, optional): The ETag a read is conditional on. A match is answered 304 with no body.

## Response 200
- id (integer, required): Unique identifier.
- body (html, required): Comment body as rich text. HTML from the plnnrly editor, sanitised on the way out, so what you read back can differ from the bytes you sent. Mention spans (`<span data-type="mention" data-id="3">`) survive untouched and may be posted back verbatim; constructing a new mention is not supported in v2.0.
- author_type (string, required): The kind of record `author` points at; it says which branch of `author` applies.
- author_id (integer, required): The id of the record `author` points at.
- author (Ref or UserSummary, required): Who wrote the comment. Renders as `{"id": N}` unless `?include=author` expands it, which additionally requires the users prefix's read grant and a token covering it.
- commentable_type (string, required): The kind of record `commentable` points at; it says which branch of `commentable` applies.
- commentable_id (integer, required): The id of the record `commentable` points at.
- commentable (Ref, required): The record the comment hangs off, as a reference. Look it up from `commentable_type` and `commentable_id` with `GET /api/v2/work-items/{id}` or GET `/api/v2/drive-items/{id}`. It is not expandable: `?include=commentable` is a `400`.
- created_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): When the comment was posted.
- updated_at (timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ), required): Last-write timestamp; use for incremental sync, and as the revision the strong `ETag` is derived from.
- links (CommentLinks, required)
  - self (url, required): The canonical URI of this record.

## Errors
- 403 forbidden-by-policy | insufficient-permission | insufficient-token-scope: Forbidden.
- 304 : Not modified.
- 400 idempotency-key-required | invalid-cursor | invalid-query-parameter | malformed-request | unsupported-parameter: Bad request.
- 401 token-expired | unauthenticated: Unauthenticated.
- 404 endpoint-not-found | resource-not-found: Not found.
- 406 not-acceptable: Not acceptable.
- 429 rate-limit-exceeded: Too many requests.
- 500 internal-error: Server error.
- 503 tenant-unavailable: Service unavailable.

## Example
```bash
curl -G \
  'https://<your-url>/api/v2/comments/1' \
  --data-urlencode 'include=author' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json'
```