[Developers] How do you ask MQL to get a count of the number of available results?

[Chris Eppstein]

Will that return the number returned or the total that exist when  
using a limit query?

On Jan 5, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Will Moffat wrote:

> Hi Indy,
>
>> Hi, we're trying to ask freebase how many topics of a particular
>> type exist. Below is what we tried, but it doesn't work - is this
>> even available?
>
> The (undocumented) syntax is "return":"count"
>
> So this is what you're looking for:
> {
>   "query" : [
>     {
>       "return" : "count",
>       "type" : "/user/corallink/default_domain/underwater_location"
>     }
>   ]
> }
>
> regards,
> --Will
>
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