Okta Certified Administrator Exam - Topic 9 Question 22 Discussion

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Question #: 22
Topic #: 9

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When you call a GET API call for users / groups / and other such objects, the response is usually Paginated, in case these are a lot of objects returned. What do you do in order to retrieve all objects?

Solution: You call the very same API multiple times, till the response will be empty

AYes

BNo

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by Dottie at Feb 27, 2023, 05:17 PM

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Zona

7 months ago

I thought there might be a limit on how many times you can call it.

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Erinn

7 months ago

Yep, just loop through the pages!

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Margurite

7 months ago

Wait, isn't there a better way to handle this?

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Gerald

8 months ago

Totally agree, pagination is a common issue.

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Launa

8 months ago

That's right, keep calling until you get an empty response!

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Elinore

8 months ago

I'm pretty confident that the solution is to keep calling the API until there's no more data, but I wonder if there are any best practices for doing this efficiently.

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Jamal

8 months ago

I feel like I might be mixing this up with another API concept. Is it always necessary to call the API multiple times, or can you sometimes get all data in one go?

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Carole

8 months ago

This sounds familiar! I practiced a similar question where we had to handle pagination, and I think the key is to keep track of the page number or token.

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Isadora

8 months ago

I think I remember that you have to keep making requests until you hit an empty response, but I'm not entirely sure if there's a limit on how many times you can call it.

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Moon

8 months ago

Hmm, this looks like a tricky firewall configuration question. I'll need to carefully read through the requirements and think through the different options.

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Leanora

8 months ago

I'm pretty sure Ruby, Python, and PowerShell are the runtimes I can use for this scriptable task. I've worked with those in vRealize Orchestrator before.

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Nelida

8 months ago

I'm pretty confident I know the answer to this one. The key is that the Specific Commitment Days in Branch/Plant Constants is set to 14, so we need to run the Convert Future Orders program (R479W) on a daily basis to keep the orders current.

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Cletus

8 months ago

I remember a practice question about LUN configurations, and I think they might have indicated it was more about block storage than file-based.

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Aracelis

8 months ago

I remember we discussed different types of fraud in class, and this situation sounds like it's related to theft, but I can't quite recall the exact term.

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Eric

1 year ago

The solution is to call the API repeatedly until it's empty? That's like trying to fill a bucket with a hole in the bottom.

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Ayesha

1 year ago

I'm pretty sure there's a better way to do this than just spamming the API. Maybe we could use something like cursor-based pagination or offset-based pagination?

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Mel

1 year ago

Wait, so the correct answer is to just keep calling the same API over and over? That's like the digital equivalent of knocking on the same door until someone answers.

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