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Ish
New Contributor III
4 years ago
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REST Get delay between making calls as documents come in (not pagination or retry)

Hello, For the REST Get snap, there’s a feature to set a delay interval between Pagination and Retry calls, but what about just between regular calls as documents come in? All calls to REST can be...
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  • j_angelevski's avatar
    j_angelevski
    4 years ago

    Hi @Ish,

    If you really need the delay between each REST call on each document input, then yes that has to be delayed with a Script snap, it doesn’t have to in a sub-pipeline because you can pass the data through the Script snap.

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rgoerwit
New Contributor II
4 years ago

This is an ongoing point of pain, and many folks have requested the ability to loop in SL without resorting to deep recursion.

There are apparently technical barriers to this. But it’s necessary. (Loop here would be: GET, examine response; if response says to wait, extract the wait time and pause, then go back to step one; otherwise, proceed.)

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joel_bourgault
New Contributor III
2 years ago

Interesting use case; it seems to me that if Pagination Interval was a field that can be computed, it would implement the expected behavior.