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The_Doc
Ultimate Cover User
1 year ago
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OData queries are not working

Hi Folks

Despite years of running MYOB's APIs I have never been successful at getting any ODATA queries to work.

My APIs work - fine but if I need Sales Orders - I have to get them all and then sort.

It works but now this no longer is the best option especially when the download pages start heading towards over a 100.

"/Sale/Invoice/?$Filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb')"      - doesn't work

"/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$Filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb')"  doesn't work

"/Sale/Invoice/?$Filter=Date gt dateTime'2024-11-01'" - doesn't work

"/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$Filter=Date gt dateTime'2024-11-01'" - doesn't work

 

I can say I have never got ODATA queries working.

 

I use MSAccess - my API calls are not through MYOB's SDK but through my own code I have created from scratch - my apps work fine - but I end up downloading the entire payload.

 

Be interesting to see if the same occurs with a VB.NET or VC#.NET - I have test applications - but was wondering if someone can spot something obvious. 

I know queries in ODATA are extremely finnicky - as they are in SQL - but ODATA seems to have beaten me.

I can no longer ignore this problem as I need to now download a selection of Sales Invoices after 1/11/24 else I end up with a ginormous download number of pages.

Interestingly - I don't get any errors - just ALL the invoices.

The Doc

 

  • The_Doc's avatar
    The_Doc
    1 year ago

    Hi Folks

    Don't you know it - as soon as I posted I went back to trying ODATA - and again nothing worked and then I spotted what seemed to be an insignificant error in the code

    "/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$Filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb')"  doesn't work - this is from MYOB API developers web in which I have found many many errors.

    So I went to the link that takes me to the official ODATA 2.0 site and tried this line

    "/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$Filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb') eq true"  doesn't work 

    but no joy

    "/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb') eq true"  WORKED!!!!!!

     

    I starred at this for hours and missed the obvious - 'Filter' - doesn't work - 'filter' does - ODATA is case sensitive.

    VB.NET - is not case sensitive

    VC#.NET is pedantically case sensitive to the extent that a variable named "Filter' is totally different to 'filter

     

    VBasic in Access is NOT

    ODATA it seems is - 

     

    I resisted posting for weeks - and as soon as I did - the solution popped out.

    Hope my dive into ODATA helps someone - they are fiddly though way, way more than SQL queries.

     

    The Doc

     

     

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  • The_Doc's avatar
    The_Doc
    Ultimate Cover User
    1 year ago

    Hi Folks

    Don't you know it - as soon as I posted I went back to trying ODATA - and again nothing worked and then I spotted what seemed to be an insignificant error in the code

    "/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$Filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb')"  doesn't work - this is from MYOB API developers web in which I have found many many errors.

    So I went to the link that takes me to the official ODATA 2.0 site and tried this line

    "/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$Filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb') eq true"  doesn't work 

    but no joy

    "/Sale/Invoice/Item/?$filter=startswith(Number,'RPWeb') eq true"  WORKED!!!!!!

     

    I starred at this for hours and missed the obvious - 'Filter' - doesn't work - 'filter' does - ODATA is case sensitive.

    VB.NET - is not case sensitive

    VC#.NET is pedantically case sensitive to the extent that a variable named "Filter' is totally different to 'filter

     

    VBasic in Access is NOT

    ODATA it seems is - 

     

    I resisted posting for weeks - and as soon as I did - the solution popped out.

    Hope my dive into ODATA helps someone - they are fiddly though way, way more than SQL queries.

     

    The Doc

     

     

  • Mike_James's avatar
    Mike_James
    Ultimate Cover User
    1 year ago

    Hi The_Doc , if not resolved with filter, maybe lower case datetime will resolve those queries too?

  • The_Doc's avatar
    The_Doc
    Ultimate Cover User
    1 year ago

    Thanks Mike - ODATA is now making my life so much easier after I got them going - so simple yet, missed for so long. Have re-written all my API downloads to include ODATA  filter - just like Stored procedures - they cut your download payload and download times significantly - yep - I know I am preaching to the choir but - like finding a hidden overdrive button.

    So use to VBA being NOT case sensitive - and then VC#.NET being so pedantically case sensitive and then VB.NET not being. Wasn't sure whether I Arthur or Martha!.

    Regards The Doc

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