Select fields are not pre-populated about traccar-web

[tananaev]

The problem is calling pretty expensive APIs when they don't need to be called. There are 2 API calls for each field. Most of the time people only need to change one of the fields. It doesn't make sense to call all of them preemptively.

Combining everything into one call doesn't solve any problem. The bottleneck is database requests, not number of API calls.

[tananaev]

This is expected to avoid making large number of API calls too early.

[TheZoker]

IMHO this is very confusing for the user, since he never knows which fields have values and which do not.

Maybe make delayed calls?

[tananaev]

How would delayed calls solve the problem?

[TheZoker]

I'm not sure, but I also don't think I understand the problem. Other applications can handle this, this is the only app, that does not show which options are selected by the user.

I though that with this:

large number of API calls too early

you mean the API should not be jammed with a lot of calls early. If you delay them, they are not called early

Maybe a new API endpoint, which returns all the data within one call could solve this.
Then there would be only one call instead of many.
But I'm not expert on this topic, just a confused user.