List V2 API for RE NXT

Tim Butler

Is there a way to request access to the List V2 API for RE NXT?

Thank you!

Tim Butler
Reporting Services Analyst
Berklee College of Music
tbutler3@berklee.edu

Alex Wong

@Tim Butler
I don't know the future of List v2, given Query API has went public.

Query API currently doesn't filter on or output webview specific fields, so that might be a drawback, though I think the plan is to make Query API (and Query on webview) to handle all fields (including those specific to web view too).

That brings the future of List v2 questionable.

@David Springer maybe you can comment on this?

Tim Butler

@Alex Wong
Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I'm not sure that the Query API will work for our use case. We're using Entrinsik's Informer, which works well with most of the V1 GET endpoints.

With the Query API, it looks like you need to request the query with a POST, the query runs in the background, and then you need to make another request to check if it's done to get the results. Informer supports multiple paged requests, but I'm not sure I could get one report to work with multiple requests of different types.

The reason I was specifically looking to use the List V2 API was because V1 doesn't have a way to get all custom field values for ALL funds – you need to get them from each fund individually. Again that requires a bunch of separate requests, each with the ID specified, rather than being able to just get the full list of values to pull into Informer.

I'd appreciate any insights – thanks again!

Alex Wong

@Tim Butler
The reason why I said “I don't know the future of List v2” is b/c it has been in preview for over a year now, and the ONLY data model that was “developed” was for “Action list", nothing else.

Your need of getting fund and fund attributes is not going to work with List v2.

Given the existing SKY API endpoint, your only option to get fund attributes in bulk is through Query API. I don't know what Entrinsik Informer is, but if it isn't capable of automating in various ways, then you may want to invest into a different tool.