Squashed commit of the following:

commit 9298f8a31ca25f53d7fb6a0a90af783b9b01f46c
Author: Ashm Walia <ashmwalia@outlook.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 27 09:00:16 2021 -0800

    Removed redundancy

commit 2a93a92521d989664ebb8dfebe011d8df67ad40f
Author: Ashm Walia <ashmwalia@outlook.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 27 08:58:24 2021 -0800

    Sc

commit 2f5f9df6dec1e905f3abf37d124ecd92d0e3a3d9
Author: Ashm Walia <ashmwalia@outlook.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 27 08:29:56 2021 -0800

    Pre-final

commit 85c0f668665696ba8127ee1ea436d10ec0af955f
Author: Ashm Walia <ashmwalia@outlook.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 27 08:24:43 2021 -0800

    Pre-final

commit 755f4f540d3e759ff9ad3bc35c64b6f7fc83998b
Author: Ashm Walia <ashmwalia@outlook.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 18:00:44 2021 -0800

    Add provision to show and hide replies

1 files changed, 101 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/services/CommentService.ts b/src/services/CommentService.ts
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+++ b/src/services/CommentService.ts
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+import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-community/async-storage';
+import {Alert} from 'react-native';
+import {COMMENTS_ENDPOINT, COMMENT_THREAD_ENDPOINT} from '../constants';
+import {ERROR_FAILED_TO_COMMENT} from '../constants/strings';
+import {CommentType} from '../types';
+
+export const getComments = async (
+  objectId: string,
+  fetchThreads: boolean,
+): Promise<CommentType[]> => {
+  let comments: CommentType[] = [];
+  try {
+    const token = await AsyncStorage.getItem('token');
+    const endpoint = fetchThreads
+      ? COMMENT_THREAD_ENDPOINT + '?comment_id='
+      : COMMENTS_ENDPOINT + '?moment_id=';
+    const response = await fetch(endpoint + objectId, {
+      method: 'GET',
+      headers: {
+        Authorization: 'Token ' + token,
+      },
+    });
+    const status = response.status;
+    if (status === 200) {
+      comments = await response.json();
+      console.log(comments[0]);
+    } else {
+      console.log('Could not load comments');
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.log('Could not load comments', error);
+  }
+  return comments;
+};
+
+export const postComment = async (
+  comment: string,
+  objectId: string,
+  postThread: boolean,
+) => {
+  try {
+    const token = await AsyncStorage.getItem('token');
+    const request = new FormData();
+    request.append('comment', comment);
+    if (postThread) {
+      request.append('comment_id', objectId);
+    } else {
+      request.append('moment_id', objectId);
+    }
+    const endpoint = postThread ? COMMENT_THREAD_ENDPOINT : COMMENTS_ENDPOINT;
+    const response = await fetch(endpoint, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: {
+        Authorization: 'Token ' + token,
+      },
+      body: request,
+    });
+    if (response.status !== 200) {
+      throw 'server error';
+    }
+    return await response.json();
+  } catch (error) {
+    Alert.alert(ERROR_FAILED_TO_COMMENT);
+    return undefined;
+  }
+};
+
+//Get count of comments for a moment
+export const getCommentsCount = async (
+  objectId: string,
+  fetchThread: boolean,
+): Promise<string> => {
+  let comments_count: string = '';
+  try {
+    const token = await AsyncStorage.getItem('token');
+    const endpoint = fetchThread ? COMMENT_THREAD_ENDPOINT : COMMENTS_ENDPOINT;
+    const response = await fetch(endpoint + `${objectId}/`, {
+      method: 'GET',
+      headers: {
+        Authorization: 'Token ' + token,
+      },
+    });
+    const status = response.status;
+    if (status === 200) {
+      const response_data = await response.json();
+      comments_count = response_data.count;
+    } else {
+      console.log(
+        'Something went wrong! 😭',
+        'Not able to retrieve comments count',
+      );
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.log(
+      'Something went wrong! 😭',
+      'Not able to retrieve comments count',
+      error,
+    );
+  }
+  return comments_count;
+};