getExchangeDetails for large amount of trades

[G35]

Hi,

I am calling 'getExchangeDetails' on 'receivedOfferChanged' event to log received trade data. This works well in most cases, but if account is receiveing large amount of trades concurrently I start missing data from some trades. I have few questions here:

1. Is my assumption that this is indeed caused my amount of trades received in short period of time correct? I mean does 'getExchangeDetails' interacts with steam and gets ratelimited? 

2. If 1. is true, is there build-in mechanism to handle this in trade offer manager, or should I queue received offers and make a sheduler to call 'getExchangeDetails'?

Thanks in advance. 

G

[Dr. McKay]

Yes, getExchangeDetails makes a Steam API call (specifically, GetTradeStatus). Generally speaking, anything that has a callback makes a network request.

No, there's no built-in mechanism for handling rate limiting. You'll need to do it yourself.

[G35]

understood, thanks.

[rahimi0151]

here is what i did. i get the trade history every 5 minutes and will append it to the cached trade history in my redis. then, on a 1 minute schedule, i will get the exchange detail for one of the items that doesn't have it. 

 

granted, i have a 5-10 minute delay, but it can handle 10 bots with the same ip perfectly.