I have a large array filled with id's (array size will always be large, over 1000 for example) like this [000001,000002,000003,000004,...] and I want to send a request to an API that can contain up to 100 of these id's at a time (this is a limit, only 100 id's per request and out of my control)
The endpoint takes these id's as url params like so ?ids=000001,000002,000003,000004,... but I am struggling to figure out the logic I would need to perform to loop through every 100 entries and take those entries, send the request and then repeat until all entries have been added to a request?
This is my first question here on SO so apologies if this isn't quite the correct format, I just really need a logic check on this one...
You can use JSON like this :
let createdJson = JSON.stringify(myIntArray);
// here send your request with :
sendRequest("http://url/?json=" + createdJson);
Then, in the other side you use something like :
In this example, I'm using PhP.
$intArray = json_decode($_GET["json"]);
// now you have your int array
The general principle would be to split your large array into chunks first, then form a request from each chunk, send it, wait for the reponse, keep hold of the results and then send the next.
Here's some code with no details:
const chunks = chunkArray(largeArray) // returns an array of arrays
let responses = []
for(const chunk of chunks){
const query = createQueryStringFromArray(chunk)
const response = await sendQuery(query) // post to API
responses = [...responses, response] // keep hold of results
}