Péter Pallinger (Oct 10 2024 at 09:53): Péter Pallinger (Oct 10 2024 at 09:53):I am trying to find a way to get the internal dataset id for a dataset with many files (170k), the PID is known.
Search API finishes in about two minutes, and does not return the dataset ID. (/api/search?q=PID)
The native API times out, because it seems to try to serialize all file metadata. (/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=PID)
Péter Pallinger (Oct 10 2024 at 09:56):So can either the dataset id be gotten from the search api somehow, or the files be excluded from the dataset listing in the native API?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 10 2024 at 10:21):I would suggest setting show_entity_ids=true when using the Search API: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.4/api/search.html
Péter Pallinger (Oct 10 2024 at 11:40):Thanks, this seems to work, even if it is quite slow.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 10 2024 at 12:12):Is something like this faster? https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/datasets/:persistentId/versions/:latest-published?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TJCLKP&excludeFiles=false
Péter Pallinger (Oct 10 2024 at 12:26):I tried with both excludeFiles=true and excludeFiles=false but they do not work. Most probably because our dataverse is still on 6.1 :( . But I will keep that in mind in case we upgrade.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 10 2024 at 13:17):Oh, right. I forget when it was added. Pretty recently, for the SPA, because it was slow to retrieve that data otherwise.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 10 2024 at 13:19):It looks like it was added in 6.2 (renamed at least): https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.4/api/changelog.html#v6-2
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 10 2024 at 13:20):Renamed in PR #10191.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 10 2024 at 13:21):Anyway, @Péter Pallinger I guess we could add a new API that takes a DOI/PID and simply returns the database id. If you want something like this, please feel free to open an issue.
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