[Koha-devel] Getting "count" when using REST API

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

That's a smart trick!

We should not be lazy though, and add a generic way to retrieve the count
without making several DB hits.

El jue, 4 ago 2022 20:56, <dcook at prosentient.com.au> escribió:

> Jonathan, you are a champion! That'll work perfectly for me!
>
> David Cook
> Senior Software Engineer
> Prosentient Systems
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2022 10:17 PM
> To: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com>
> Cc: David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>; Koha Devel <
> koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Getting "count" when using REST API
>
>  I needed that for ERM and I did a GET with _page=1 and _per_page=1 (to
> retrieve only 1 result) then read the X-Total-Count value from the header's
> response ;)
>
> Le jeu. 4 août 2022 à 12:33, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> >
> > Only with x-koha-embed
> >
> >
> > El jue, 4 ago 2022 3:54, <dcook at prosentient.com.au> escribió:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there a method for getting a “count” using the REST API without
> fetching every record?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> When building a paging lookup outside of Koha, it would be useful to
> get a total record count and then just fetch the page of records that you
> need.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Cook
> >>
> >> Senior Software Engineer
> >>
> >> Prosentient Systems
> >>
> >> Suite 7.03
> >>
> >> 6a Glen St
> >>
> >> Milsons Point NSW 2061
> >>
> >> Australia
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Office: 02 9212 0899
> >>
> >> Online: 02 8005 0595
> >>
> >>
> >
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