Issues to get a list of task back

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Hi,

I am currently facing an issue that when i passed an array of taskids to get a list of tasks back the code was stuck somewhere and no response. if i pass taskid one by one in a for-each, it has no problem to get the task back.

The method i called was: octopusRepository.Tasks.Get()

Regards,
Ben

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Hi Ben,

Thanks for reaching out. That Get() method needs an string[] (array of strings) and not a List<String>. If you have a list of string you could do this:

var tasks = new List<string>();
tasks.Add("ServerTasks-7445");
tasks.Add("ServerTasks-7444");
OctopusRepository.Tasks.Get(tasks.ToArray());

Let me know if that works.

Edit: Totally disregard the above reply. I misread your ticket and I thought you were pasing a List<String> to that method

That Get() method will swipe through the entire list of tasks to get the ones that match those IDs, which would explain why your program gets stuck.

From a performance perspective, I recommend you to stick with the foreach loop + passing a single ID at a time, which will fetch only that particular ID without reading the entire list.

Best regards,

Dalmiro

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Thanks for your reply.

the for-each way works fine now.

just curious, what reason it could be causing this stuck/no response to get them all back together.

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You could setup Fiddler to see how many API requests are being made and how much they are taking. That would be the best way to troubleshoot the stuck/slowness.

That said, I wouldn’t wast too much time on it as I can confirm that the foreach loop will be much better performance-wise :slight_smile:

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Cool. thanks for your advice~~