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SanderVeeken
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2 years ago

API calls and parallel loading

Hey everyone,   I ran into an issue and I thought I'd share it here, I'd appreciate thoughts, solutions or shared experiences although it is "sort of" solved for now.   Basically I have three API...
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SanderVeeken's avatar
SanderVeeken
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2 years ago

The thing is that I'm already referencing the source queries. There are three separate API calls that can't be combined (one is "students", another is "courses", another is "teachers"). I get current season info from those API calls. I get previous season history from excel dumps on SharePoint. I append them to get a complete picture. I would have thought that using references prevents PQ from doing multiple requests to the same endpoint but apparently not.

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lbendlin
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2 years ago

You can try Binary.Buffer but even that does not shield reliably against the meta data chatter.