Clarification on using the mutate API to draft posts in Sanity.io

hey could someone clarify whether the mutate api allows drafting (but not publishing) posts? https://www.sanity.io/docs/http-mutations#patch-2f480b2baca5
i've been getting 500 errors when testing out this api and im not entirely sure why.

the only reason i can think of is maybe i am not sending all required fields in the document?

oh was able to get the post request working, but weird that

create

still goes through when all the required fields are not provided.

it'd be great if someone could clarify if i could "draft" only with this api! 🙂

for now i am just going to prefix the

_id

field with

drafts.

which seems to work pretty well! feel free to lmk if this is an anti-pattern or if there is a better way.

Hi Yihwan, you’re correct! Prefixing with

drafts.

is indeed the way to go and not considered an anti-pattern 🙂

Regarding the required fields - validation currently happens on the client side only, so any rules you define in your Studio will not be used for server side validation when using the HTTP API. You would have to set up additional validation for these yourself, unfortunately.