WorldServer API - too much traffic

Question

hi, 
 we are trying to communicate with WorldServer using wswebservices.dll, but we have found that it returns much much more data than required. 
 E.g. to query the list of active projects using WSWorkflowManager.getProjects(...), it takes about 5-10 minutes, and generates about 100MB traffic or more. Then it returns only 34 projects. 
 The problem is that together with the each project, it also returns the related client object, and with the related client object, it also returns all the users (hundreds) of this client, it also returns the creator user, its vendor etc, so much more things than required. Is there any way to get only the core data? 
 Thanks in advance, 
 Tamas

Bill Slack (SDL) · Accepted Answer

The core web-service API is indeed very "chatty". The upcoming WS 11 release will provide a new REST best API which will be more efficient -- this will not initially cover all use-cases covered in the existing SOAP API. An alternative is to implement a custom SOAP service which returns data in a more efficient manner; this can be built on top of the WorldServer SDK. 
 
Can you describe the data an interactivity that that you require?

Bill Slack (SDL) · Answer

Yes, it can be. It would either need to be developed or at least deployed with the help of Professional Services. The "core properties" would need to be defined, as well as the depth of the detail needed. SOAP is not the most flexible transport mechanism and (as we see with the core services) becomes very verbose and repetitive, so careful design of the data objects is important.

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