How to pull data in three different layers faster about pace-api

[rkang30]

I have played around with current api system and I was able to reduce it to a little less than 1 minute. This time I only pull first 25 csrs. The time that burns the most is at looping stage for fetching 'plannedHours'. I know that I can get the collection of keys in array. Is there any way that I can pluck the one column value (for my case 'plannedHours') after find()? What I looking for is to fetch only 'plannedHours' values in array and sum those values. This would reduce significant time.

Thanks,
Ryan

	$results = [];
	$count = 0;
	foreach($csrs as $csr_id => $csr_name){

		$results[$count]['csr_id'] = $csr_id;
		$results[$count]['csr_name'] = $csr_name;

		$activeJobIds = $this->paceStartSql()
		->filter('@csr', (int) $csr_id)
		->sort('@job', true)
		->find()
        ->filterKeys(function($key){
            return preg_match('/^[0-9]{6,}$/', $key);
        })->keys();
		
		$active_dockets = count($activeJobIds);
		$results[$count]['active_dockets'] = $active_dockets;

        $parts = 0;
        $hours = 0;

        if(count($activeJobIds) > 0){
            $jobPlans = $pace->jobPlan
            ->filter(function($xpath) use ($activeJobIds){
                $c = 0;
                foreach($activeJobIds as $activeJobId){
                    if($c == 0){
                        $xpath->filter('@job', $activeJobId);
                      $c = 1;  
                    }else{
                        $xpath->orFilter('@job', $activeJobId);
                    }
                }
            })
            ->filter('@activityCode', $this->prePressJobPlanCode)
            ->filter('@plannedHours', '!=', 0)
            ->find();

            foreach($jobPlans as $jobPlan){
                $hours += $jobPlan->plannedHours;
            }
        
            $jobParts = $pace->jobPart
            ->filter(function($xpath) use ($activeJobIds){
                $c = 0;
                foreach($activeJobIds as $activeJobId){
                    if($c == 0){
                        $xpath->filter('@job', $activeJobId);
                      $c = 1;  
                    }else{
                        $xpath->orFilter('@job', $activeJobId);
                    }
                }
            })
            ->find()
            ->count();

            $parts += $jobParts;
        }

		$results[$count]['total_parts'] = $parts;    		
		$results[$count]['booked_hours'] = $hours;  

	  $count++;	
	}

[radoslavius]

We usually do queries on data over the database, which is much much faster. Especially for inquiries through more than one object.

@robgridley wrote: "I hate the Pace database. Who ever named those columns should be flogged in the street. At least come up with a consistent naming scheme for relationship keys!" - it is big TRUE

But we are using phpstorm that make things much easier:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2014/11/database-language-injection-configuration/

[rkang30]

Hi there,

I found 'pluck()' in KeyCollection class. But it didn't cut any time on fetching 'plannedHours'... I guess I should close this ticket for now..

[robgridley]

It does not really matter what you do in PHP, because your PHP code is not the bottleneck. It is the repeated API read object calls which are slow. It is known as an "N+1 problem". Unfortunately, the API does not allow you to read multiple objects at once or fetch only the properties you are interested in.

I agree with @radoslavius. This is a situation where querying Postgres directly—at least for summing the planned hours—would perform a lot better.

[rkang30]

Thanks for your answer, robgridley.

Could it be possible for you to add additional API feature that allows users to run raw psgresql queries?

e.g. $job = $pace->select('SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE job = ? ', [123]);