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spandya getUpdated time range with python suds
I'm trying to use the Salesforce SOAP API in python to poll for updated items in a Salesforce account. I'm stuck on code that looks like this:
pollingInterval = 5 * 60 # 5 minutes
now = s.getServerDatetime()
updatedContacts = s.getUpdated('Contact', now - datetime.timedelta(seconds=pollingInterval), now)
where s.getUpdated(...) just calls the SOAP function "getUpdated." I've set the time range to be starting from 5 minutes in the past and ending at the current moment. This doesn't return any data. The "latestDateCovered" is always several hours in the past. If I set the end date to be some point in the future (such as 100 days), it returns some data, but it returns the same data every 5 minutes. In that case, the "latestDateCovered" is the same as the server time. I tried adjusting for my time zone, as well as daylight savings, but to no avail. Does anyone have any idea what the proper way to do this is?
for same requirement, you can write code in different way. With refering to LastModifiedDate , which you can use key to get recently updated accounts. I am sure it will resolved.
I am approaching this problem from the opposite side -- I have a working application that looks for records with a LastModifiedDate after a certain point in time. This works fine until I run it against a table with > 1 million records in it, and then I get a query timeout error (after two minutes).
Someone pointed me to the API getUpdated() function.
Does anyone have an answer to the original question? I am hoping that getUpdated() will return an answer more quickly than SELECT * FROM Table WHERE LastModifiedDate >= DATE
TIA,
John
now = client.service.getServerTimestamp().timestamp
offset = now.utcoffset().seconds
now = now.replace(tzinfo=None) + datetime.timedelta(seconds=offset)
this will convert the server's time to local time. there's probably a more elegant solution, but this works. i suspect your code would look something like:
# 'now' is described above
# 'DATE' is a datetime object representing the desired date, eg:
DATE = datetime.datetime(2009, 5, 1, 17, 0, 0) # 5/01/2009 at 5:00pm
client.service.getUpdated('Contact', DATE, now)
this returns a bunch of Ids over which you have to iterate and retrieve. i hope this helps.
--sagar