Discussion API bugs

themroc

themroc
Thank you for the opportunity to have a seperate forum thread regarding the API. It means a lot to me and I'm sure to others too.

The main problem with the API is the fact that it sometimes returns totally false data. I'm not talking about off prices. Some stations are being reported as having no market or the API supplies ship/outfitting lists for stations that don't have those facilities. Most obvious is the enormous amount of planetary stations receiving shipyard intel, which is of course not possible since those stations can't technically have a shipyard.

Stations reported as not having a market

Stations without shipyard but with API data

  • EDDN log: https://ross.eddb.io/eddn/log?parsing_result=24
  • This log is only the tip of the iceberg. We filter out a lot already. If EDDB has confirmed that a station has no shipyard, then EDMC discards it already. The most recent entries are planetaries only. This bug is present on orbital as well!
Stations without outfitting but with API data

Users with only Horizons and without the base game can't log in


I'm sure that everybody would love to see more enhancements to the API. However, fixing those bugs is most important. I rather give up on a single enhancement if only those bugs get fixed.
 
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Felnot

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OK so I've raised a support ticket (support.frontier.co.uk) with the following text and I will let you know of any reply...


Hi there,


First of all I know that it's going to be pretty tempting to automatically close this ticket with a standard response stating you don't support third party applications but my issue isn't with the third party app, it's that people who bought the game after Horizons came out can not authenticate using the API.


There's a known issue on EDMC's github page where there are lots of examples and there's also a relatively new thread on the Frontier forums too...


https://github.com/Marginal/EDMarketConnector/issues/43
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=225246&p=3514052#post3514052


Please can you enable Horizons customers to use the API?


Regards


Felnot.
 
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Walter Harriman

Walter Harriman
Felnot said:
OK so I've raised a support ticket (support.frontier.co.uk) with the following text and I will let you know of any reply...


Hi there,


First of all I know that it's going to be pretty tempting to automatically close this ticket with a standard response stating you don't support third party applications but my issue isn't with the third party app, it's that people who bought the game after Horizons came out can not authenticate using the API.


There's a known issue on EDMC's github page where there are lots of examples and there's also a relatively new thread on the Frontier forums too...


https://github.com/Marginal/EDMarketConnector/issues/43
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=225246&p=3514052#post3514052


Please can you enable Horizons customers to use the API?


Regards


Felnot.
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That's good. Let's hope we get a satisfactory answer but I'm not holding my breath.
 

Felnot

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Hey hey,

Got a reply :)




Hi Dave,


I have passed the information in the forum thread and this ticket to our development team. They will take a look shortly. I hope the problems can be resolved soon.


I will update this ticket as soon as we have new information.


Best regards,


CMDR Vega
Elite: Dangerous Customer Support

So, I'm glad that it's not a default "we don't do 3rd party" and the ticket is being passed on to someone who can do something about it so hopefully us horizons noobs can use the API at some point in the not too distant future :)

As before, I will keep you up dated.

Felnot
(sometimes called Dave)
 

themroc

themroc
Felnot said:
Hey hey,

Got a reply :)




Hi Dave,


I have passed the information in the forum thread and this ticket to our development team. They will take a look shortly. I hope the problems can be resolved soon.


I will update this ticket as soon as we have new information.


Best regards,


CMDR Vega
Elite: Dangerous Customer Support

So, I'm glad that it's not a default "we don't do 3rd party" and the ticket is being passed on to someone who can do something about it so hopefully us horizons noobs can use the API at some point in the not too distant future :)

As before, I will keep you up dated.

Felnot
(sometimes called Dave)
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But this is the default reply. There are douzends of replies like this. And nothing got eventually fixed :(
 
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