API "getParticipants" call, "amountRaised" is null when using "event_type" instead of "fr_id"

Jeffrey Kaplan

Anyone know what the deal is with the getParticipants method returning amountRaised as null when the call uses “event_type” as the required field instead of “fr_id”? I assume it's to limit strain on the database but I hope it's just a bug.

If that field was populated one would be able to pull top 10 participants across multiple events with a single API call by sorting descending on amountRaised (or, as it's called in the request, "total").

Richard Murphy

I don't think I've tried this particular scenario before but I am seeing the same results as you've reported here in a test I just ran. Not good news but confirmation that it's likely intentionally designed this way, for the reason you mentioned.