[Vtigercrm-developers] What is the point of vtws_retrieve, retrieve_related?

[Uma S]

Hi Alan,

Thanks! for the Note.

Yes! Your right retrieve and retrieve_related web-service api's are
fetching the Raw data from DB without user dependent formatting. Let's
review this as an enhancement and review. We also made note on documenting
the DataTransform api.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 6:11 PM Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the point of the Server API retrieve type functions when they do
> not convert the raw data from a record(s) into the current_user's
> expected formats?
>
> When I pull data using these methods, dates are provided in ISO 8601
> format, currency fields are just raw floats with no consideration of the
> user's Currency Decimal setting and there are no currency symbols.
>
> Having to use this API for (vtiger Marketplace) modules which display
> data in the vtiger UI seems pointless as the Record Model provides all
> the necessary APIs already... After retrieving the raw data via
> vtws_retrieve/retrieve_related I then have to:
>
> 1. Determine the type of the field to see if it needs formatting (not
> obvious as we only have: fieldname => value)
> 2. Load an entity/Record Model/Field Model to get the appropriately
> formatted data
>
> I do wonder if we could use the DataTransform class for this, but there
> is no documentation and it is hard to work out what is required for this
> work properly.
>
> Al
>
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With
Best Regards
Uma.S
Vtiger Team
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