Manage waiting time for an API and verify its execution

I know that it is possible, perhaps with timesets or sleeps, to wait for an API to finish its course and wait for the response before proceeding.

However, I would like to understand what would be the best way to wait for an API to run and verify that what it was supposed to do was done correctly.

For the reading APIs it is simpler as you just have to wait for the result and verify that it is correct,
for the writing API, on the other hand, it is necessary to verify that the entered data is entered correctly, what is the best way to do it?

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Legacy Contributor

Can you give some example on what you want to do? I mean within the H5 scripting if the API response without an error the actions should have been performed by the API and you can continue with your next actions.

Legacy Contributor

Sometimes it happens that the API returns the response value 200 but has not actually performed the operation but only received it in the queue

Rene Bottern

You need to look at these parameters as well, Status=200 just means that the API processed the Request, NOT that is was successfull.

The bold one below shows if it was Successful or Not.

<strong><span class="hljs-attr">"nrOfSuccessfullTransactions": 1</strong>,
<span class="hljs-attr">"nrOfNotProcessedTransactions": 0,
<span class="hljs-attr">"nrOfFailedTransactions": 0,

Legacy Contributor

Thank you very much, how is it possible to access these parameters?

magnus-tallqvist

Please also note that it is quite common that the actual update triggered through an API is made through a batch or Auto job which is de-coupled from the API as such. Thus, only looking at the successful transaction is not a general rule that can be used to verify that the requested update has been done.

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