Filtering and paginating lists about powerdns-php

[trizz]

Hi @geoff-maddock,

I've looked into this and unfortunately there's no reliable way of getting limited results of zones. Filtering or paginating inside the package is possible, but it does not prevent timeouts, as all zones still will be retrieved at once. So unless PowerDNS adds pagination to the API itself, it is not possible to get a paginated/filtered list of zones. I'll keep track of this PowerDNS issue and once there's pagination, we'll add it right away to the package.

[geoff-maddock]

Thanks for the followup Tristan. This is the first time our team has really looked into the API, so I wasn't completely aware of the limits of the API itself until this week.

Do you have any documentation on how how you handle the filtering and pagination using your package? It's possible we might be able to work with that if the retrieval times aren't too much.

We're exploring creating our own API using API platform for reads, but probably would only be for reads and filtering.

[trizz]

At this moment there's no such thing as filtering and pagination in the package, as there are no endpoints that support it. Getting a list of zones will always return all zones. If you do not want this, you'll need to create your own workaround, for example keeping a list of zones in your own DB which you can use. Unfortunately we can't do anything about it.