[Developers] any programmatic way to query for sandbox reloading status?

[Raymond Yee]

Hey Shawn,

Thanks for pointing to /api/version.  Are the parameters documented 
somewhere?  I looked at 
http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/en/api_version  but didn't quite 
understand the values

Output from http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/api/version

{
  "cdb": "cdb/dev/21:77732",
  "client": "client/dev/97:77725",
  "code": "/api/status/ok",
  "graph": "gd/dev/50:76020",
  "index": "relevance/dev/28:75179",
  "me": "me/dev/139/pyroot:77635",
  "server": "sandbox-freebase.com",
  "status": "200 OK",
  "transaction_id": "cache;cache01.sandbox.sjc1:8101;2009-07-17T19:46:37Z;0002"
}

Output from http://www.freebase.com/api/version

{
  "cdb": "cdb/dev/18:72726",
  "client": "client/dev/96:77671",
  "code": "/api/status/ok",
  "graph": "gd/dev/50:76020",
  "index": "relevance/dev/28:75179",
  "me": "me/dev/138/pyroot:77659",
  "server": "www.freebase.com",
  "status": "200 OK",
  "transaction_id": "cache;cache03.p01.sjc1:8101;2009-07-17T19:47:20Z;0008"
}


-Raymond

Shawn Simister wrote:
> You should also be able to poll 
> http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/api/version to check for updates. It 
> still wouldn't give you any advance warning though.
>
> Shawn
>
> Kirrily Robert wrote:
>> It seems to me that you could do this yourself, in a weird way.  When  
>> you run your sandbox updater, create a topic on sandbox called  
>> "Sandbox hasn't been refreshed yet."  Then when your cron job runs,  
>> look for the presence of that topic, also checking for creator =  
>> rdhyee just to be sure.  If the topic doesn't exist, it means sandbox  
>> has been refreshed, in which case you run your updater again and re- 
>> create the topic.
>>
>> Hacky, but should do the trick.
>>
>> K.
>>
>> On 17/07/2009, at 11:48 AM, Raymond Yee wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Now that freebase-python 1.0 makes it easier to easier to save and  
>>> copy
>>> types and objects around
>>> (http://blog.freebase.com/2009/07/10/freebase-python-1-0/ ), I'm
>>> thinking of automating the process of saving my sandbox work and
>>> reloading it every week.  Is there an API call (or series of API  
>>> calls)
>>> I can make to determine 1) whether the sandbox is in the process of
>>> being reloaded and 2) when that reloading is done?  Also some
>>> information that indicates an estimate of when the next reload will
>>> start and when it will end would be helpful for automating saving my
>>> work between sandbox refreshes.
>>>
>>> -Raymond
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