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An open-source software package to power microbial genomic databases
https://loculus.org
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Add backend endpoint to get number of sequences per pathogen similar to get-released-data #2727

Closed corneliusroemer closed 2 months ago

corneliusroemer commented 2 months ago

It can happen that the backend aborts sending results when requested from get-released-data and this isn't easily noticed by clients.

One idea is to provide a new endpoint that quickly returns the total number of sequences expected by get-released-data - to allow clients to decide.

Alternative is to have backend calculate a full checksum, slightly more robust than just counting sequences but more work.

We might also just want to modify the backend to save get-released-data output to file before sending it to client once database->backend was successful.

fengelniederhammer commented 2 months ago

Let's rather do this? https://github.com/loculus-project/loculus/issues/2724#issuecomment-2337258697

In general this seems to be a duplicate of #2724

corneliusroemer commented 2 months ago

Wasn't aware of #2724, thanks @fengelniederhammer