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[Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>]

(and no, there is a limit for generating UIDs in the web-api for a
reason... that endpoint is open to everyone, and you could kill servers if
we allowed no upper limit)

-- 
Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Calle
>
> Just use something like this (you need to have the uid() function
> installed first)
>
> copy (select uid() as uid from generate_series(1,10)) to '/tmp/test.csv';
>
> and replace 10 with whatever number you want
>
> --
> Morten Olav Hansen
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> http://www.dhis2.org
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Call the same end point 250 times maybe and concatenate to a file? 😕
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2017 18:11, "Calle Hedberg" <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Knut
>>
>> Aware of that, but it generates only one UID.  I can use it in a small
>> program, of course, but that's not the point here:
>>
>> I would like to know if there is a way to get the web API to create 2.5
>> mill UIDs into a csv file.
>>
>> Regards
>> Calle
>>
>> On 25 June 2017 at 23:45, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> By courtesy of Bob:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-utils/blob/master/resources/sql/uid.sql
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I need around 2.5 mill UIDs for use as event UIDs, but the following
>>>> only returns 10,000 (this might be a browser setting - not sure):
>>>>
>>>> http://localhost:8080/dhis//api/26/system/id.csv?limit=25000
>>>> 00&paging=false
>>>>
>>>> Any other way to generate those 2.5 mill UIDs and dump them directly
>>>> out into a csv file?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> calle
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Calle Hedberg
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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