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REST service data source for large amount of data

I have a REST service data source containing a few million product items. How are VSQL query parameters such as ItemId converted to the query parameter on that source REST service? Does Denodo have to pull all 3 million items and then filter the result set?
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user
11-01-2021 09:55:49 -0500

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Hi, When I publish the view as RESTful web service, I would make use of "Set as mandatory" option by double clicking on the field in Resources Tab. With this setting, I have to specify the value for the field in the Query. As for filtering the query result, I was able to use $filter parameter for RESTful web service. By using this filter, I don't have to pull all the data and I can just get the data I need. I referred to the following user manuals, I believe it should be helpful to you: * [Resources Tab](https://community.denodo.com/docs/html/browse/8.0/vdp/administration/publication_of_web_services/publishing_rest_web_services/resources_tab) * [Input Parameters of the RESTful Web Service](https://community.denodo.com/docs/html/browse/latest/vdp/administration/restful_architecture/restful_web_service/input_parameters_of_the_restful_web_service) Hope this helps!
Denodo Team
12-01-2021 04:11:44 -0500
My question is about the REST API **data source**. It is a REST API provided by a system external to Denodo. The video/toturial suggest to use a JSON data source with http data route. But it seems Denodo just get all 2 million records from the API and then filter the result based on the query parameter (such as product ID). How do I set up the REST API **data source** in a way so Denodo would invoke the REST API dynnically with the query parameter (product ID in this case)? Thanks.
user
12-01-2021 09:56:10 -0500
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