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LP2803
Responsive Resident
Responsive Resident

Pagination with API

Hi team,  

Though this topic is widely discussed on forum and other article describe on how to get data through API pagination calls, I'm finding it very difficult to get it work in my situation.

 

Below is the M query that im using but it fails at the "GetJson" with error "Expression.Error: The field '@odata.count' of the record wasn't found."

 

Kindly help me how can i resolve this issue.


BaseUrl = "https://webexapis.com/v1/meetings?meetingType=meeting&from=2019-01-22T04:00:00Z&to=2020-12-31T04:00:...",
Token = "xxxxxxxxx",
EntitiesPerPage = 100,

GetJson = (Url) =>
let
Options = [Headers=[ #"Authorization" = "Bearer " & Token ]],
RawData = Web.Contents(Url, Options),
Json = Json.Document(RawData)
in Json,

GetEntityCount = () =>
let Url = BaseUrl & "&count=true&top=0",
Json = GetJson(Url),
Count = Json[#"@odata.count"]
in Count,

GetPage = (Index) =>
let Skip = "$skip=" & Text.From(Index * EntitiesPerPage),
Top = "$top=" & Text.From(EntitiesPerPage),
Url = BaseUrl & Skip & "&" & Top,
Json = GetJson(Url),
Value = Json[#"value"]
in Value,

EntityCount = List.Max({ EntitiesPerPage, GetEntityCount() }),
PageCount = Number.RoundUp(EntityCount / EntitiesPerPage),
PageIndices = { 0 .. PageCount - 1 },
Pages = List.Transform(PageIndices, each GetPage(_)),
Entities = List.Union(Pages),
Table = Table.FromList(Entities, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error)
in
Table

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PhilipTreacy
Super User
Super User

Hi @LP2803 

The error is telling you that there is no record in the returned JSON with a field name of @odata.count.

What is actually being returned in the JSON?  Click on the Json step and you should see what GetJson is returning.

As an example, here's another JSON request I've made to another website.

getjson.png

The returned JSON contains 2 fields called metadata and results.  I can access the data in the results field by creating a step like this

res = Json[results]

Phil


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