Best Practices

Greetings,

Got some quick questions about the best practices, and possible future abilities. 

Best Practices:Which of these two would be better?1) Calling a character with c:resolve of all items, spells, achievements, etc.

OR

2) Using a few separate calls with the hide command used on the separate calls and resolving in those separate calls the information?

Future:Will it be possible in the future to execute a query string like this: census.daybreakgames.com/json/get/eq2/item/itemId_1,itemId_2,itemId_3 ?

Thanks!

 

I suspect doing one single call is most efficient, as otherwise the character would have to be located again with each query.

Also, note that c:hide is less efficient than c:show, so try to use c:show as much as possible, even if it means a fairly long and complicated query.

 

Is this documented somewhere?

 

How would I go about specifying c:show fields in a c:resolve of equipmentslots? I've tried a few different options, but can't seem to get it to limit it at all.

 

I asked Dan that question a few weeks ago on these forums (wether it was best to have many c:show or a few c:hide), and he confirmed that c:show was the most efficient way to go.

 

The following query works for me:

census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/character/468151577294?c:show=equipmentslot_list&c:resolve=equipmentslots

You can add other fields, such as displayname:

census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/character/468151577294?c:show=equipmentslot_list,displayname&c:resolve=equipmentslots

 

Sorry, I guess what I meant to ask is how do I specify what I want to show within the resolve results? Like, how do I specify what fields I want to see in the resolved equipmentslot data?

 

You can add those fields in parentheses on the c:resolve value.

For instance...you could use the following query to resolve the spell_list on a character

census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/character/515400265667?c:show=displayname,spell_list&c:resolve=spells

Changing the c:resolve will allow you to limit the resolved information - say to only four fields of information:

c:resolve=spells(name,tier_name,type,spellbook)

-dan