Is there a way to do a Count() query in ImageVault 4

Robert Baarda

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Hi,

Is there any way in ImageVault 4(.7) to do some sort of 'COUNT' query using the ImageVault API?
We've implemented paging by using the 'Skip' and 'Take' implementations as described here: http://imagevault.se/en/documentation/api-documentation/?page=csharp/examples/querying-mediaitems/querymedia.html and this seems to work properly.
Now we would also like to know the total amount of items found when not using paging. The only way I found to do it is to fetch all items and do a 'Count()' on the fetched collection.
Is their a proper way of doing it using the ImageVault API?

Regards,

Robert.

#122561

Jun 05, 2015 10:35

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I don't think it's possible.

One thing we've done a few times when needing better querying and searching capabilities is regularly exporting MediaItem objects to Find.

#122581

Jun 05, 2015 14:21

Peter Jonsson

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As you write you can do a count on the fetched items. But you can't get that information without fetching them first.

You can however query statistics for specific vaults and get information about number of items in that vault.

http://imagevault.se/en/documentation/api-documentation/?page=csharp/examples/queryvault.html

#122630

Jun 08, 2015 16:20

Robert Baarda

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Thanks for your replies! Querying for Vault statistics seems usefull, however we need statistics based on one or more categories.

#122735

Jun 11, 2015 12:07

Peter Jonsson

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To get the number of items for categories you will need to fetch the items for that category/categories first and then do a count.

#122940

Jun 18, 2015 12:49