Looking at the RTM API briefly, I see that rtm.tasks.getList does in
fact take an argument named 'filter' that can include a lot of
different criteria, including 'status:incomplete' as a way to retrieve
only active tasks. This would be a nice way to shrink the size of the
response, especially if the user has already unchecked "Show completed
tasks" in Tasque.
rtm.tasks.getList also takes an argument called 'last_sync' as a
timestamp for the last time the list was fetched and then only sends
any changes that have occurred since. Does the RTM backend for Tasque
use this yet? That would also seem to be a good way to shrink the size
of the responses from RTM.
Just
wanted to confirm that I am experiencing the same problem. Not sure
how many tasks I had (including completed ones) when the problem
started -- probably around 90 or so. After deleting all my completed
tasks through the RTM website, I was again able to access my current
tasks through Tasque.
Is it possible to only download the active tasks via the API? I don't
really have a need to see my completed tasks in Tasque, but it would be
nice to keep them and access them via the RTM website.
John
Sandy Armstrong wrote:
Onur Yirmibesoglu wrote:
> However this doesn't address the issue, and there is still some
cap
> to the amount of data transfer possible at one sync. I don't thing
it
> is a network problem, it looks like more of an API issue to me.
Unfortunately, from what I can tell, we are being throttled back for
overuse of the API. I don't know if we have some users with tons of
tasks and a really high update frequency, or just a lot of regular
users, or what. I'm basing my theory off of this thread from the RTM
developer list:
http://groups.google.com/group/rememberthemilk-api/browse_thread/thread/23928b64cb0f629e#
As a test, I tried changing the URL we use from
"api.rememberthemilk.com" to "www.rememberthemilk.com", and Tasque
started working again. Unfortunately we can't ship a change like that.
We need to do some investigation to figure out if what we can do,
either
by calling different API method or by talking to the RTM guys. Oh, and
the API docs say to keep requests to an average of 1 per second. :-/
I'm looking at it right now...
Sandy
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