setInclude not working about contentful.php HOT 11 CLOSED

Hey @dstuessy 🙂
Can you provide some more info, so we can try to understand your problem? I'm interested in what the expected result is compared to the actual result, and the different behavior you experience when using setInclude.

Contentful's API uses include=1 when no explicit parameter is defined, and the SDK should resolve links automatically, at the cost of an extra query, so using setInclude or not should yield the same result, with the underlying difference of having done more queries behind the scenes. Let me know your answers to my question above, so we can start debugging your issue 👍

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Hi @dborsatto

Hm... maybe it's just a matter of me misreading the docs. haha

Here is what I expected to get:

{
    "sys": {
        "type": "Array"
    },
    "total": 1,
    "skip": 0,
    "limit": 100,
    "items": [
        {
            "sys": {},
            "fields": {
                "title": "Cars",
                "content": [
                    {
                        "sys": {
                            "type": "Link",
                            "linkType": "Entry",
                            "id": "_id"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "sys": {
                            "type": "Link",
                            "linkType": "Entry",
                            "id": "_id"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "includes": {
        "Entry": [ {}, {} ]
    }
}

but actually got this:

{
    "sys": {
        "type": "Array"
    },
    "total": 1,
    "skip": 0,
    "limit": 100,
    "items": [
        {
            "sys": {},
            "fields": {
                "title": "Cars",
                "content": [
                    {
                        "sys": {
                            "type": "Link",
                            "linkType": "Entry",
                            "id": "_id"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "sys": {
                            "type": "Link",
                            "linkType": "Entry",
                            "id": "_id"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

Using https://cdn.contentful.com/spaces/{my_space}/entries?access_token={my_token}&content_type={type}&fields.title=Cars&include=2 with a cURL request, seems to give me the former, though.

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That looks weird indeed.
What do you say about opening a support ticket on contentul.com? So I can better take a look at your issue and see what we can find out 🙂 Please reference this Github issue 👍

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Hi @dborsatto :)

Sorry for the extremely late reply. I'll open a support ticket with this github issue as a reference!

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@dborsatto any update on this? As this is a public SDK it would be great to link the outcome of the support ticket as well as any corresponding commits and merges as the documentation is severely lacking. Thanks!

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Hey @M-Porter,

Daniel created a support ticket, but then he never replied with some info I asked, so the ticket was archived.

For this case, are you having a similar issue? To be honest I can't fully understand the initial problem because the examples were about JSON, whereas the SDK should work as an abstraction thus making the underlying JSON irrelevant. Do you have any input on the topic?

Cheers,

Davide

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Hey,

I'm closing this (again). If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to reach out.

Davide

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The returned ResourceArray does not seem to include the "includes" array that both the API and the Javascript SDK return.

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@officialbalazs The SDK handles the includes array internally and does not directly expose it. When you try to access those resources (through the original entry) the SDK will know that they've already been preloaded, and will not make further requests.

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Aha - makes sense. Is there a way to expose that array?

It would save us from having to make subsequent requests to our API after fetching the original entry.

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You can not access it, but as I said, there will be no extra API requests.

If the includes array contains an entry/asset, the SDK will not make extra requests when trying to fetch it (both when accessing it from another entry with something like $blogPost->getImage() or when calling $client->getAsset($assetThatWasAlreadyFetchedId)), because it will keep a copy of the resource in memory and use it instead of calling the API.

You can call $client->getMessages() for accessing a list of the API requests that have been made (it returns a list of Contentful\Core\Api\Message objects), and see for yourself that there shouldn't be extra API calls.

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