According to this question (and its answer), questions and answers are using the same index to determine their ID. In other words:
- Question with ID #1
- Answer with ID #2
- Answer with ID #3
- Answer with ID #4
- Question with ID #5
Because the 3 answers consumed 3 ids, it is impossible for a question to have ID #2, #3, or #4. This is the behavior as defined in the question linked to above.
However, this is not reflected in the API. In some cases, you must know the type of a post in order to request information about it. For example, if you want to request the comments of a particular post, you must use either /questions/{id}/comments or /answers/{id}/comments. It would be really wonderful if I could just use /posts/{id}/comments and not have to rely on knowing the post type in order to retrieve its comments.
Pretty please?
/posts/{id}/commentsand be done with it. (which I realize now isn't immediately obvious in my question. i'll update it)posts/{id}/commentsmethod. However, if any method might return different types (for instance, a hypothetical/posts/{id}) I'd have to say its not worth complexity.