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

[John Giannandrea]

Raymond Yee wrote:
> Great -- that's the trick that I'm looking for.  One question  
> though: is it still important to know whether we are in the *middle*  
> of a sandbox refresh?  That is, is it possible that the "Sandbox  
> hasn't been refreshed yet." topic has disappeared but  the refresh  
> hasn't completed yet?  I want to avoid writing to the sandbox in the  
> middle of a refresh -- or is it not possible to do so while the  
> refresh is happening?

I think one hack would be to look for the last link written to www.freebase.com 
, like this:

{
   "type":      "/type/link",
   "source": {
     "id": null
   },
   "timestamp": null,
   "sort":      "-timestamp",
   "limit":     1
]

and then look for that link on sandbox, like this (at the time of  
writing):

{
   "source": {
     "id": "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000cf69f6e"
   },
   "timestamp": "2009-07-17T20:45:59.0008Z",
   "type":      "/type/link"
]

if you find this last link on sandbox, then the copy must be done.

-jg