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QUESTION:
We are planning on creating an internal web service for transfering data between workspaces and the amount of data can get pretty large. Is there a limit to the amount of data a web service call can pass? It might amount to 100k maybe, would that work?
ANSWER:
I am not aware of a maximum in data that can be transferred but the more data is sent on one call may make the call seem to be operating slowly. On the other hand, several big webservice providers ask you to send more data in one call instead of multiple small calls.
If sending strings, make sure your argument size is large enough (see set_argument_size).
A quick test showed that there was no problem in tranferring 500,000 characters in one parameter or even multiple of these ones in an array or array of structs. In total, the test transferred 16 million characters in one call.
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Vincent Oorsprong
Company: Data Access Worldwide
email: vincent.oorsprong@dataaccess.eu
Web Site: http://www.dataaccess.eu
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