Patch #16069
openAllow configuration of API limit instead of hardcoding at 100
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Description
The below tested patch makes the previously harcoded limit of 100 items in a RESTful API response configurable in the Administration GUI. The default value is still 100. This is based on 2.4.1.stable.
This is quite useful since it is nice and simple to just get the full response in a single page rather than having to traverse pagination, and a limit of a bit more than 100 is still very performant for many sites -- the limit beyond which performance starts to degrade really depends on the particular site's usage, so should be controllable by the local administrator.
Index: app/controllers/application_controller.rb
===================================================================
--- app/controllers/application_controller.rb (.../trunk/app) (revision 13385)
+++ app/controllers/application_controller.rb (.../branches/code-8112/app) (revision 13389)
@@ -519,8 +519,8 @@
limit = options[:limit].to_i
if limit < 1
limit = 25
- elsif limit > 100
- limit = 100
+ elsif limit > Setting.api_limit.to_i
+ limit = Setting.api_limit.to_i
end
if offset.nil? && options[:page].present?
offset = (options[:page].to_i - 1) * limit
Index: app/views/settings/_general.html.erb
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--- app/views/settings/_general.html.erb (.../trunk/app) (revision 13385)
+++ app/views/settings/_general.html.erb (.../branches/code-8112/app) (revision 13389)
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
<p><%= setting_select :wiki_compression, [['Gzip', 'gzip']], :blank => :label_none %></p>
+<p><%= setting_text_field :api_limit, :size => 6 %></p>
+
<p><%= setting_text_field :feeds_limit, :size => 6 %></p>
<p><%= setting_text_field :file_max_size_displayed, :size => 6 %> <%= l(:"number.human.storage_units.units.kb") %></p>
Index: config/settings.yml
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--- config/settings.yml (revision 13387)
+++ config/settings.yml (revision 13389)
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@
default: localhost:3000
protocol:
default: http
+api_limit:
+ format: int
+ default: 100
feeds_limit:
format: int
default: 15
Index: config/locales/en.yml
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--- config/locales/en.yml (revision 13387)
+++ config/locales/en.yml (revision 13389)
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@
setting_host_name: Host name and path
setting_text_formatting: Text formatting
setting_wiki_compression: Wiki history compression
+ setting_api_limit: Maximum number of items returned in a JSON/XML API response
setting_feeds_limit: Maximum number of items in Atom feeds
setting_default_projects_public: New projects are public by default
setting_autofetch_changesets: Fetch commits automatically
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Related issues
Updated by Domingo Galdos over 10 years ago
Is there anything I can do to help move this patch forward?
Updated by Go MAEDA over 9 years ago
The user should not be able to set the value of API limit smaller than 100.
Probably some clients suppose that the value is always 100, smaller limit may affect compatibility with such clients.
Updated by Jens Peter Kempkes about 9 years ago
We would also appreciate higher values than 100. Some of our tools need to load all items visible to a user and therefore need to split the requests.
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang almost 9 years ago
- Target version changed from 3.2.0 to Candidate for next major release
Updated by Jens Peter Kempkes almost 9 years ago
Too sad, this patch was shifted.
What is the reason?
We're really waiting for this patch and all seems to be done. Am I wrong?
Updated by Go MAEDA over 8 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #7539: Rest-API limit of items not 100, but changeable by the administrator added
Updated by Dam Dam over 8 years ago
+1
Hi,
This request was posted 2 years ago, so what's up?
Updated by Go MAEDA over 7 years ago
- Has duplicate Defect #25555: Make api paging limit configurable added
Updated by George Brooke over 7 years ago
Is there anything wrong/non-ideal with this patch which means that it has not been integrated?
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 7 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #26553: Overly restricted number of ReST results added
Updated by Michael Gerz almost 7 years ago
What happened to this patch? Nothing?
Updated by Yuuki NARA almost 6 years ago
+1
I think that it should be changeable by the responsibility of the system administrator.
There are many configuration items in the world system that may cause troubles due to setting change contents.
Since there are cases where it is necessary to change these items, it is made public after clearly stating that there is a risk when changing.
It is enough to specify the following points.
If you change the default value, there is a possibility of trouble in the operation of REST using application.
The operation verification responsibility is on Redmine system administrator who changed.
Updated by Mischa The Evil over 4 years ago
- Has duplicate Feature #33526: Add possibility to configure limit used to retrieve objects for an API response added
Updated by VVD VVD over 4 years ago
Russian translation of:
setting_api_limit: Maximum number of items returned in a JSON/XML API response
is
setting_api_limit: Максимальное количество элементов, передаваемых в ответе JSON/XML API
Updated by VVD VVD over 4 years ago
meineerde from IRC #redmine@freenode ask me to describe my use-case.
Sorry for my poor english, but I try to explain why this feature is important for me.
We are using Redmine for manage projects - tasks, issues, bugtracker. 10-20 active projects with hundreds active issues and 100+ active users - employees and customers. Employees are using "Spent time" in issues to record work time for every issue every day. The employees' salary depends on those records.
We have developed application on Java+Tomcat for create reports with values from "Spent time" fields. It using REST API to get values:
http://redmine.host/time_entries.json?spent_on=><BEGIN_OF_MONTH|END_OF_MONTH&offset=N&limit=10000
For example to get 20000 objects - 200 requests in ~3 minutes even on localhost. But it's faster with limit 10000 - ~20 seconds only.
After end of each month 10+ project managers (I'm one of them) using this application to create reports for each project. The employees salary calculated from this reports. Every mouth we have thousands of "Spent time" entries. It's too long for users wait several minutes for "simple" report, and even more - some browsers timedout connection during this time…
Please, commit this patch!
Updated by vzvu 3k6k about 4 years ago
- File 0001-domingo-galdos.patch 0001-domingo-galdos.patch added
- File 0002-add-test.patch 0002-add-test.patch added
- File 0003-move-to-api-tab.patch 0003-move-to-api-tab.patch added
- File 0004-simplify-label.patch 0004-simplify-label.patch added
- File 0005-quickfix-allow-less-than-25.patch 0005-quickfix-allow-less-than-25.patch added
Looks good. We've wrote a patch based on Domingo Galdos' one (Patch 0001) with Juno NISHIZAKI, sanak and me on Redmine patch meeting 4th.
The changes are as follows:- Added a test. (Patch 0002)
- Moved the configuration value form from the "General" tab to the "API" tab and shorten the label name. (Patch 0003, 0004)
- In the current implementation, if the limit parameter is less than 1, Redmine sets limit to 25. the limit is less than 25, the conditional statement is modified to be replaced by another one. (Patch 0005)
Go MAEDA wrote:
The user should not be able to set the value of API limit smaller than 100.
Probably some clients suppose that the value is always 100, smaller limit may affect compatibility with such clients.
Sounds reasonable, but currently the setting page doesn't have any validations. Do you have any good idea to apply the constraint?
Updated by Mizuki ISHIKAWA about 4 years ago
vzvu 3k6k wrote:
Go MAEDA wrote:
The user should not be able to set the value of API limit smaller than 100.
Probably some clients suppose that the value is always 100, smaller limit may affect compatibility with such clients.Sounds reasonable, but currently the setting page doesn't have any validations. Do you have any good idea to apply the constraint?
The attached patch adds validation, though it may not be the best way to write it.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU about 4 years ago
- Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 4.2.0
The final result of the patch series posted by vzvu 3k6k and Mizuki looks good to me and all the tests pass: https://gitlab.com/redmine-org/redmine/-/pipelines/207877707
I propose to evaluate this for 4.2.0, but we should have Jean-Philippe agree on this because he rejected the patch some time ago. The feature is useful, for sure.
Updated by Roberto Mendes over 3 years ago
I need this. To get more than 100 items.
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 3 years ago
- Target version changed from 4.2.0 to 5.0.0
Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 2 years ago
- Target version changed from 5.0.0 to Candidate for next major release
Updated by Go MAEDA almost 2 years ago
- Related to Feature #38173: Increase limit of entries in json/xml and, preferably, make it configurable added
Updated by Maciej Czechowicz over 1 year ago
Is it possible to push this request? I have application which sends 13 requests to Redmine and takes internity for that.