documentation/content/en/entities/Context.md

---

title: Context description: Represents the tree around a given status. Used for reconstructing threads of statuses. menu: docs:

parent: entities

aliases: [

"/entities/context",
"/entities/Context",

"/api/entities/context",

"/api/entities/Context",

]

Example

{
  "ancestors": [
    {
      "id": "103188938570975982",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T19:44:00.124Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": null,
      // ...
    },
    {
      "id": "103188971072973252",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T19:52:23.398Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": "103188938570975982",
      // ...
    },
    {
      "id": "103188982235527758",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T19:55:08.208Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": "103188971072973252",
      // ...
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "id": "103189026958574542",
      "created_at": "2019-11-23T20:06:36.011Z",
      "in_reply_to_id": "103189005915505698",
      // ...
    }
  ]
}

Attributes

ancestors {#ancestors}

Description: Parents in the thread.\ Type: Array of Status\ Version history:\ 0.6.0 - added

descendants {#descendants}

Description: Children in the thread.\ Type: Array of Status\ Version history:\ 0.6.0 - added

See also

{{< page-relref ref="methods/statuses#context" caption="GET /api/v1/statuses/:id/context" >}}

{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/serializers/rest/context_serializer.rb" caption="app/serializers/rest/context_serializer.rb" >}}