Example: I'd like to write a query that returns characters with spell XXX on tier YYY. Sth like: Code: http://..../character?spells.name=XXX&spells.tier=YYY Problem is that the query returns characters with spell XXX and _any_ spell on tier YYY. Anyone can help?
You kinda left out a key detail. To get spells.name and spells.tier, I believe you are doing a resolve like this: http://census.daybreakgames.com/xml...c:show=spell_list&c:resolve=spells(name,tier) You cannot do conditionals after a resolve or based on what is returned from a resolve. The best you could do would be to make a list of spellids to check for and then count the number of players that have that spellid. However I just tried this and, because spell_list is not indexed or cached, it's pretty much impossible to query.
You're right - I needed to resolve spells list, but thats not the problem I have. Below is another example (resolve not needed) that shows my problem: I want to find characters who earned at least XXX point of faction YYY: I filtered characters by id (of my character), faction.id=1, and faction.value>=0 Code: http://census.daybreakgames.com/s:example/xml/get/eq2/character?id=515397680762&faction_list.id=1&faction_list.value=]0&c:show=faction_list Result is: Code: <character_list limit="1" returned="1" milliseconds="0" seconds="0.0" min_ts="0" max_ts="0"> <character id="515397680762"> <faction_list> <faction id="1" value="-50000"/> <faction id="2" value="18000"/> ....... Returned character (mine) has -50k of faction of id 1. While I wanted to get characters with >=0 faction of id 1. Is there any way to query census to get what I want?
it did that because it's a logical OR for all value comparison clauses. To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a way to do a logical AND
What you think you've requested: CharacterID: 515397680762 character has Faction ID #1 with a value >0. What you've actually requested: CharacterID: 515397680762 character has Faction ID #1 with any value. character has at least one faction with a value >0. This is why we have requested that things be designed like this: Code: <character id="515397680762"> <faction_list> <faction1 id="1" value="-50000"/> <faction2 id="2" value="18000"/> Then this query would work: Code: http://census.daybreakgames.com/s:example/xml/get/eq2/character?id=515397680762&faction1.value=]0&c:show=faction_list No. You'd have to scrape the entire EQ2 character DB to do this kind of analysis. Is there an Achievement that exists? If so you might be able to find all characters who have completed that achievement.
Thank you for the answer. I'll try to use pre-filtering in query and then filtering in code. DBG census could give us 2 separate lists of achievements: completed and inProgress, instead of mixing both in 1 list....
I have researched an answer to this and have a solution that should work for you. DISCLAIMER: This method of querying EQ2 census is unsupported and not optimized. It can put a significant load on Census servers or just plain timeout. I suggest setting up a daily/weekly "cron job" or scheduled task to run queries of this nature and then display cached results. Your mileage may vary, see store for details. http://census.daybreakgames.com/s:e..._list(id,value)=(1,>5000)&c:show=faction_list Returns no results because you have less than 5,000 faction with factionID #1. Remember this is a less than, so to find characters with 50,000 faction you need: http://census.daybreakgames.com/s:e...list(id,value)=(1,>49999)&c:show=faction_list -Morgan
Thanks a lot! Works fine for not-resolved data. So one can filter by: - having X points assigned to AA ability - really having completed an achievement - having X points of faction Y I didn't manage to run similar queries filtering resolved data (for instance: having spell X on tier Y). Probably filtering is executed before resolving.
