Right...we're using the API documentation from the vendor, doing it according to what they say. It's not super quick but then again I don't think most people use it for processing tens of thousands of records quickly like my client's app does. Most folks are using it to just get a single carrier's information (it's a trucking app) at a time.
On 8/2/2020 8:17 AM, António Tavares Lopes wrote:
Mike,
a) is it a Web API that you may call through an HTTP library?
b) and the parameters' values in each call to the API come from each record in the table?
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:07 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
I've got a regular process that runs, basically using key information to grab data from an API and then update the local VFP database. There are maybe 64000 records to process, and each record to update through this process takes about a second, so to process this group would take over 17 hours. Each record could be processed on its own; there are no relationships between each.
I don't want to start it and run the 64000 in a row for 17+ hours. I would like to design the app to use the table, RLOCK the row I'm processing, and the UNLOCK the row when I'm done. I figure with this design, I could run multiple instances of the MyProgram.exe (similar to how WestWind Web Connection allows you to run multiple instances) to process the batch maybe 4x faster (if I launched 4 instances of MyProgram.exe). The basic construct would be as follows:
USE ListOfRecsToProcess IN 0 SHARED Alias MyList && record is PK (to process) i, tProcessed t, tError t, cSession c(10) SCAN FOR EMPTY(cSession) AND RLOCK('MyList') IF ProcessRecord(MyList.ID) THEN REPLACE tProcessed WITH DATETIME(), cSession WITH this.cSession IN MyList ELSE REPLACE tError WITH DATETIME(), cSession WITH this.cSession IN MyList ENDIF ENDSCAN
Does anybody see any problems with that general design? The ProcessRecord method calls an API to get values and then updates the local VFP record accordingly.
tia, --Mike
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