get_network_ids_for_user not returning expected network_ids

[ariutta]

The method get_network_ids_for_user appears to be limited to 1000 network_ids.

Test Case for v3.3.1:

Query the test server http://test.ndexbio.org to see how many networks I own:

user_network_ids = my_ndex.get_network_ids_for_user("ariutta")
print(len(user_network_ids))

I'm getting back 1000, but the number should be much larger (over 30k).

[coleslaw481]

Oh that is bad. thank you for catching this.

Under the hood get_network_ids_for_user() is simply calling get_user_network_summaries() which by default limits results returned to 1000 networks. I'll fix this, but in the meantime you can call get_user_network_summaries() and set the limit to a giant number like 1000000

Upon success, the result you get back from get_user_network_summaries() is a list of dict objects where each dict is a network. To get the network id simply get the value from the key externalId.

Here is example code that puts all the network ids into the list my_uuids:

res = my_ndex.get_user_network_summaries('ariutta', limit=1000000)

my_uuids = []
for entry in res:
   my_uuids.append(entry['externalId'])

NOTE: get_user_network_summaries() shows not only networks owned by user, but also any networks directly shared with the user.

[coleslaw481]

Fixed in branch3.4.0 by updating documentation and adding offset and limit parameters to let caller choose to get more then 1,000 results or to get results via paginations.

[coleslaw481]

Version with offsets and limit parameter Currently available to try as an alpha version by running pip install ndex2==3.4.0a1 For usage see: https://ndex2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ndex2client.html#ndex2.client.Ndex2.get_network_ids_for_user

[coleslaw481]

ndex2 version 3.4.0 formally released. Can be installed via pip install ndex2