Retrieving large data set of relationships

Question

Retrieving large data set of relationships

hedder opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Quick example:


{
     type: "blog",
     id: "XX",
     relationships: {
            posts: [ Array of 10000]
     }
}

Querying such an object from REST-API including 10000 posts could hang the application.

For such a case, it would be great to retrieve posts from a specific api endpoint:
/update/XX/posts

Any ideas?

Jakub Rohleder · Answer 1 · Thu Dec 03 2015 00:04:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, you are right. I have not tested the package for such a huge data sets.

If i understand it right you would like to have something like blog object with empty posts relationship and blog.relationships.posts.fetch() method the enables you to get posts from a specific API endpoint (like blogs/XX/posts) preferably with pagination?

Edit:
I've found an issue on the discuss.jsonapi.org that is connected to the issue.

hedder · Answer 2 · Thu Dec 10 2015 00:15:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Paginating relations is a must have for such a scenario.

But for the library we have to have a way to retrieve them independently from the main object. Basically there're 2 ideas of doing that:

blog.relationships.posts.fetch()
posts.all({url: 'blogs/XX/posts'}) - this way we can specify different url from the main to retrieve them