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mfeltscher
Expert
11 years ago

Fetch inactive polls from REST API

Hi there   Is it somehow possible to get a list of all inactive polls using the REST API? There is a call to get the active polls (as documented here) so in my opinions it should be possible for in...
  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    11 years ago

    mfeltscher, you can get the list of all the polls in your community using the call, /restapi/vc/polls and then from the returned xml, you can parse the following node to get the active status of the poll. If it is false, the poll is inactive. 

     

    <active type="boolean">false</active>

     

    I hope this helps.

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VarunGrazitti
Boss

mfeltscher, you can get the list of all the polls in your community using the call, /restapi/vc/polls and then from the returned xml, you can parse the following node to get the active status of the poll. If it is false, the poll is inactive. 

 

<active type="boolean">false</active>

 

I hope this helps.

mfeltscher's avatar
mfeltscher
Expert
11 years ago

VarunGrazitti that is the way I'm doing it right now. I was afraid this could be the only way but not too surprised about it.. 

 

I now have to fetch around 200 polls and filter them which is pretty slow as you can imagine. 

 

Thank you anyways!

 

Moreno

  • HaidongG's avatar
    HaidongG
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    11 years ago

    Hi mfeltscher ,

     

    are you fetching the list from another website? if yes, you may consider to create an endpoint and leave all REST calls and filtering within the server. and there is only one call for you to retrieve the result via endpoint URL.

    • mfeltscher's avatar
      mfeltscher
      Expert
      11 years ago

      Hi HaidongG 

       

      No, these calls are made inside a custom component. I'm doing the filtering in there now.

       

       

      Moreno

      • HaidongG's avatar
        HaidongG
        Lithium Alumni (Retired)
        11 years ago

        Hi mfeltscher ,

         

        if the rest operation is expensive, you may consider to cache the result, (one of the new features this year), such that it can only be calculated once in a short time window.