Podio .NET View.Items always returns zero - podio

Question

Using the Podio.NET library (Podio.Async), I am trying to get a Podio View object using the ViewService.GetView() method. The Podio View object represents a predefined view, or set of filters, within a Podio Application.
One of the properties of the Podio View object (PodioAPI.Models.View) is the Items property, as in var noOfItems = myView.Items. However, this field always seems to return zero for me.
I guess that I can make a call to ItemService.FilterItemsByView() using the view-id, which in turn returns a PodioCollection<Item> object that has a FilteredItems property that can be used to get the number of items, but this would mean an additional call.
Does anyone have any thoughts or information that may help me?
Thanks for taking the time to read my question, and I hope that you can help, or others find this helpful.
Kaine
Example code
class Program
{
const string CLIENT_ID = "[Your Client Id]";
const string CLIENT_SECRET = "[Your Client Secret]";
const int APP_ID = [Your App Id];
const string APP_TOKEN = "[Your App Token]";
const string VIEW_NAME = "[Your View Id]";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Task.Run(async () => { await Go(); }).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
Console.ReadKey();
}
static async Task Go()
{
var client = await GetClient();
var views = await GetViews(client);
var view = await GetView(client);
var viewItems = await GetViewItems(client, view);
}
static async Task<View> GetView(Podio client)
{
var view = await client.ViewService.GetView(APP_ID, VIEW_NAME);
Console.WriteLine("View Name: {0}, Id: {1}, Items: {2}",view.Name, view.ViewId, view.Items);
return view;
}
static async Task<List<View>> GetViews(Podio client)
{
var views = await client.ViewService.GetViews(APP_ID);
Console.WriteLine("Views: " + views.Count);
foreach (var view in views)
{
Console.WriteLine(" - ({0}) {1}", view.ViewId, view.Name);
}
return views;
}
static async Task<List<Item>> GetViewItems(Podio client, View view)
{
Console.WriteLine("View Items: " + view.Items); // This always return 0
var itemList = new List<Item>();
var itemsRemaining = true;
var offset = 0;
while (itemsRemaining)
{
var colItems = await client.ItemService.FilterItemsByView(appId: APP_ID, viewId: Int32.Parse(view.ViewId), offset: offset);
Console.WriteLine(" Downloaded: {0} to {1}", offset, offset + colItems.Items.Count());
itemList.AddRange(colItems.Items);
offset += colItems.Items.Count();
if (offset >= colItems.Filtered)
{
itemsRemaining = false;
break;
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Total View Items Downloaded: " + itemList.Count);
return itemList;
}
static async Task<Podio> GetClient()
{
var client = new Podio(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET);
var auth = await client.AuthenticateWithApp(APP_ID, APP_TOKEN);
Console.WriteLine("Auth expires in: " + auth.ExpiresIn);
return client;
}
}

Answer 1

There are 2 similar methods:
Get Views: https://developers.podio.com/doc/views/get-views-27460
This method is returning items for each view returned
"items": The number of items matching the view
Get View: https://developers.podio.com/doc/views/get-view-27450
This method is not returning items parameter, but you can still get that from groupings param (if there is any grouping). Otherwise - number of items in view is not returned.
"groupings": individual groups data, if grouping is present, otherwise {}
{
"total": total count of items in all groups,
"groups": [{
"count": items count of the single group,
In case if there are no groupings you'll have to call https://developers.podio.com/doc/items/filter-items-by-view-4540284. And then use filtered response value.
"filtered": Total number of items matching the filter,
If you only need number of filtered items - please add limit=1 parameter to your request.