From 8867f243e8ebb1712c16b5d9c154df7de3b97aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <barisusakli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:43:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: closes #12246, direction is passed in as string as query
 param with new api  call

cid isn't necessary in query params since its in path
---
 public/src/client/category.js          | 1 -
 src/api/categories.js                  | 2 +-
 src/socket.io/topics/infinitescroll.js | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/public/src/client/category.js b/public/src/client/category.js
index c452273761..b4f0bb50cb 100644
--- a/public/src/client/category.js
+++ b/public/src/client/category.js
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ define('forum/category', [
 		hooks.fire('action:topics.loading');
 		const params = utils.params();
 		infinitescroll.loadMore(`/categories/${ajaxify.data.cid}/topics`, {
-			cid: ajaxify.data.cid,
 			after: after,
 			direction: direction,
 			query: params,
diff --git a/src/api/categories.js b/src/api/categories.js
index 892c8e3d6a..db682fb245 100644
--- a/src/api/categories.js
+++ b/src/api/categories.js
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ categoriesAPI.getTopics = async (caller, data) => {
 
 	let start = Math.max(0, parseInt(data.after || 0, 10));
 
-	if (data.direction === -1) {
+	if (parseInt(data.direction, 10) === -1) {
 		start -= infScrollTopicsPerPage;
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/socket.io/topics/infinitescroll.js b/src/socket.io/topics/infinitescroll.js
index 2e9e95948e..cb0814d329 100644
--- a/src/socket.io/topics/infinitescroll.js
+++ b/src/socket.io/topics/infinitescroll.js
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ module.exports = function (SocketTopics) {
 			parseInt(data.count, 10) || meta.config.postsPerPage || 20
 		));
 
-		if (data.direction === -1) {
+		if (parseInt(data.direction, 10) === -1) {
 			start -= infScrollPostsPerPage;
 		}