topic Re: Are engagement ids incremental? in APIs & Integrations

Are engagement ids incremental?

mrswiss — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:20:01 GMT

Context: Downloading all engagements to process ones of a certain 'Type'. Since the engagement api doesn't have a type or date filter server-side, need to redownload all records daily and reprocess them.

Question: Are enagement ids incremental? If I keep track of the last one I processed, could I reliably process the newer ones by checking if their IDs are greater?

Re: Are engagement ids incremental?

dennisedson — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:43:38 GMT

Hello @mrswiss

Apologies for delayed response!

The ID should be incremental.

Re: Are engagement ids incremental?

mrswiss — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:16:17 GMT

Thanks for the confirmation Dennis.

I thought this was the case, but found some records where smaller ids had a later createddates than some newer ids so I wasn't so sure.

I did figure out that the offset is actually the id of the next entry to load up, so my end goal of just keeping track of the last offset should do the trick. Appreciate ya responding!