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API: Get only updated content

Josef Biehler 10 years ago updated by Matthew O'Riordan (Founder) 10 years ago 5
Hello,
currently i am trying to build a mobile app that uses the EB API.
I want to cache all content local so the user doesn't need to load all the data every time he starts the app. But do to this, I have to know what changes are done since th last update. At the moment I cannot pass any filter parameter to the API requests. I would like to use a parameter like "last_updated" or something similar.

Are there any plannings for such a filter?

Best regards,
Josef Biehler

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There are no plans for such a filter, but it could be added easily.  Which models / data records would you be doing a query like this on?
Out of interest, will this app be available to others, or only for internal use?
Answer
Under review
There are no plans for such a filter, but it could be added easily.  Which models / data records would you be doing a query like this on?
Out of interest, will this app be available to others, or only for internal use?
I think it is useful for the query to get the stories for a theme and for the query to get the acceptance-criterias.

The app is open source and hostet on github.
So it is available for all. But i don't know if i will publish it, on the app market.

Hi Josef

OK, one thing I thought about though is how you will deal with deleted stories.  How do you propose dealing with that?  It is possible we could perhaps return a list of deleted stories too with either a separate query or perhaps a simple JSON list within the same query.  Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Matt
Your suggestion sounds nice.
I was thinking about how to implement a local history to give the user the possibility to revert deletions of stories/backlogs/etc. This would have never been able to be the best solution, because if the user uses more than one device, every device have its own local history.

So if you can deliver deleted ones, that sounds really nice.

How about introducing a new Flag for every object, called "deleted" or something similar.
With a filter argument ("includeDeleted") for that flag (default should be "false" for backward compatibility i think) you could deliver the deleted objects within the same query as you do at the moment.

Josef
Sorry for the slow reply, I will look at this very soon.