ASP.NET Core Web API - Measuring response data - asp.net-core

We have an ASP.NET Core Web API project. Today on accident I found an API method that was returning unnecessary amounts of data.
In my example we were returning users along with countries which is what we needed, but we were also returning a list of cities for each country so that was a tremendous amount if data, I was able to reduce it from 7MB to 23KB (per Insomnia client).
I was able to fix this by performing a select and creating a new country object and not passing in the cities property. I am not even sure if that's the right way to fix that problem but I will leave that for another time. My question is...
Is there a tool/nuget package out there that would provide this type of info? I'd like to get an idea on how much data we are sending to the clients when different methods are called. We have app insights but I don't believe it provides that data or at least I don't see it.
Thank you!

I was able to resolve this issue by writing some middleware code that logs the results to azure application insights, here is a copy of the code if anyone needs it:
https://gist.github.com/tekguy/52b245f6582158d7240f80bf46c4cc71
You can then query this info by using app insights log query:
requests
| order by timestamp desc
| project url, customMeasurements.Size

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Give the api's response back to the client in batches with pagination using flask/python?

I am trying to figure out that if there is something that can help the use case mentioned below:
My use case is that I have an API that gives the response for the DB for a given time period. Now for the smaller time period, there is no issue but if the time period for which the query is being made increases then it will add a significant amount of time until the API responds. I do not want the UI to keep loading until the full response is received.
Thus I was thinking that there should be some mechanism using which I can get the response from the API in an incremental fashion(in batch) so that I can show the user and the user do not have to wait until the API is executed completely.
Any help on coding or design would be greatly appreciated.
Well I did some R/D and was able to fulfill my requirement with the Pagination package of flask_mongoengine
http://docs.mongoengine.org/projects/flask-mongoengine/en/latest/
this has the sample implementations.

Social Tables data model

I've just started looking at the documentation as we are going to need to integrate Salesforce with Social Tables shortly, so I am really new to Social Tables.
Specifically, we will need to sync data between the CRM and Social Tables Events and Guests, and maybe other objects, so it would be very helpful to have a data model or similar to check the relationships and fields available in Social Tables architecture.
I haven't found anything in the documentation, is there any way to get this, even if it's at a high level?
Thanks
Danny
To make an integration with SocialTables you'll have to do a few manual steps, there is no way to do this completely programmatic from my experience. You'll also have to be prepared to contact SocialTables to get get correct guestlist ids. Also keep in mind that the API documentation isn't always correct, the API logic is also quite difficult to understand from time to time.
The first thing you need to do is figure out which version of the Venue Mapper you use. You'd want to use the 4.0 api and as far as I know this version of the api is only supported by Venue Mapper 3.0. I believe the Venue Mapper 3.0 is the frontend tool SocialTables provides to do the venue planning.
In social tables an event has two ids, one numerical one and one alpha-numerical one, when you use the 4.0/events endpoint you only get the alpha-numerical event id, and your going to need the numerical one. The only way I've been able to get the numerical id is to pull it out from the url when using the Venue Mapper, example of the url follows below:
https://plan.socialtables.com/team/{team_id}/event/{event_id}/space/{space_id}
Now you need to get the guestlist id, you can get that by using the following url, using the numerical event id:
GET https://api.socialtables.com/4.0/diagrams?event={numerical_event_id}
This endpoint return a json structure where one of the parameters is "guestlist_id".
Please be aware that the guestlist id you get from this endpoint might not be the correct one. I struggled quite a bit with this part and ended up with SocialTables sending me the guestlist id by email.
To get the guests in your guestlist use the following api endpoint:
GET https://api.socialtables.com/4.0/guestlists/{guestlist_id}
The {guestlist_id} is an alpha-numerical string similar to: cfdac1c0-yb1d-12e6-84a5-a39e92131645
And by that you should hopefully get access to your guests.
Hey thanks for using our API.
To answer your question, the best way to see the data model at the moment is to access our developer portal and use the API console to see what is returned. For events you will need to know the team id of the team you are working with use the team events endpoint to get access to the event ids.
https://developer.socialtables.com/api-console#!/Events/get_4_0_legacyvm3_teams_team_events
This will return some basic information about each event for that team. You can then request additional details for specific events by using this endpoint:
https://developer.socialtables.com/api-console#!/Events/get_4_0_legacyvm3_events_event

How can I deep link into QuickBooks Online with results from API calls that don't include the txnId

QuickBooks Online (QBO) uses a URL format like qbo.intuit.com/app/timeactivity?txnId=123 to point to, in this example, a TimeActivity.
However, in the API, resources are referenced by entityId (returned as just Id when querying via the TimeActivity API), which is different from txnId.
In my time tracking web app, I have a feature that exports time to QBO as TimeActivities. I'd like to provide users with direct links from the time entered in my app to the corresponding TimeActivity in QBO—is there any way to do so?
The answer to this is that it's not currently possible because there's multiple base URLs (I think they call them "realms") in use for QuickBooks Online (qbo.intuit.com is only one of them). Because you do not receive this information as part of linking to QBO via OAuth, there's unfortunately no way to construct proper links.
Yes, when creating a successful TimeActivity you will receive back an Id, which I assume you are persisting.
That Id can be used to query QBO in a simple GET request.
<baseURL>/company/{companyID}/timeactivity/{timeactivityId}

How to consolidate API calls for the ASANA API

I'm a freelance web dev and I work with a lot of clients across many different workspaces in Asana. Not being able to get a consolidated view makes this a tedious and difficult thing to manage, so I'm putting together my own little utility to help me get a 'superview' of tasks assigned to me in order of the due date. In order to make this easier for me to scan, I need to have the project name next to the task details.
The easiest way, in my mind, would be a single API call for all tasks assigned to me and request the project name, task name, task id, due date, and workspace name all at once.
The API doesn't seem to allow this consolidated type of request, however, so instead, the workflow goes something like this;
API call to get all my workspaces
Loop through the workspaces, making an API call for each to get all tasks
Use PHP to sort those tasks accordingly
Loop through those tasks making an API call for the first instance of each project in order to get the project name (I cache the data as I
go so that I'm only making a call once per project)
The issue I'm getting is a 500 error when I start making API calls to get the project details. I doubt I'm hitting the 100 call per minute limit, but I'm still getting the errors none the less. In light of this, I'm looking for a way to make a consolidated call that contains all the data I need, but I can't seem to figure it out.
Anyone have some guidance on this?
Good news! We actually do support Input/Output options that allow you to specify which fields you want, including nested fields. So, while you still need to make separate calls for each workspace, you can do something like this:
workspaces = GET /workspaces
for id in workspaces
tasks = GET /workspaces/:id/tasks?assignee=me&opt_fields=name,due_on,projects.name
(If you're only interested in incomplete tasks, you can add &completed_since=now - or if you want incomplete and recently completed tasks, &completed_since=... with the timestamp you want to exclude any tasks that were completed before)
Additionally, 500 is not the code we send for rate limiting - it's likely an issue with the request itself. How are you requesting the project details?

What is the maximum results returned for YouTube Data API v3 call

Context
I am in the process of providing some consultancy on doing a HTTP GET using YouTube Data API V3; in order to develop a Windows based application to GET a list of results from Youtube, for say a specific CATEGORY, or a specific TAG.
We are open to using any programming language(I'm from a C++ background and am hoping You tube will support direct HTTP connections without using Google client SDK and so on) to connect to YouTube and (HTTP) GET data.(Once a month or so, so YouTube API quotas should not be problem).
The Issue
We are being told by some of my client's web developers that YouTube API v3 will only return a maximum of 500 records/results, for say a query that returns JUST the Total viewers, the Video's link, and basic meta data such as that.
S, say I wish to find 5,000 results for category "House music" or "basketball" - and I have the Developer Key etc are all set up, would that be possible?
If so, what GET fields would I need to populate(such as "max_results_per_page")?
Thank you.
The API won't provide more than ~500 search results for any arbitrary query. It's by design. Technically, it means that the nextPageToken field won't be returned once you hit ~500 results. No additional parameter can change that.
If you want more than ~500 results for a query, you have to split it into more specific sub-queries. I'd suggest using the publishedAfter and publishedBefore parameters to achieve that, but feel free to experiment with the other ones here.
This only holds for the search-Query. Other queries like "PlaylisItem:list" deliver more results. I have tested with 100.000 items to get the videos of a playlist.