API temporarily disabled (Sept 22-25)

I broke stuff. Temporarily turned off all of the APIs while I sort out some crashing backend server. Planning on turning it back on todayMonday with some endpoints disabled (/v2/colors and the corresponding /v1 endpoint, at least). Sorry about the mess.

Thanks for letting us know. (Good luck!)

Stuff breaks during upgrade, update and enhancement, Clarity and being informant about it is most important. Thank you for heads up and appreciate it. Good luck

Lawton, is it possible for you guys to have a mirror api web server before big updates? There's a plethora of websites which simply won't work without them, and while I sincerely understand shoot happens in live, it would be cool to have a backup of sorts... at least for static endpoints such as items, traits and skills. There's quite a lot of popular build websites which break without them.

Glad I finally looked at the forums for this! I tried to generate 4 different ones and then thought... hey check the forums see if theres something going on! Glad I did!

Owch.. Bummer dude. Hope you get a Einstein idea on fix before Monday.

This explains things, I was looking up builds and couldn't see them. This wouldn't have happened IF WE HAD BUILD TEMPLATES TO SAVE BUILDS!!!!!!!!

Thanks for notifying us. Just as I was about to try writing my first GW2 API to get the prices of all the dyes I don't own. I guess it's back to excel for now...

Hey, thanks for letting us know!

This exposed that I'm not properly handling the API being down in my app which I'm now fixing, and I don't know that I'd have properly caught it if the API didn't explode.

Good luck and remember to take breaks and stuff!:+1:

@cthos.3791 said:Hey, thanks for letting us know!

This exposed that I'm not properly handling the API being down in my app which I'm now fixing, and I don't know that I'd have properly caught it if the API didn't explode.

Good luck and remember to take breaks and stuff!:+1:

What does your app do btw?

@Valento.9852 said:Lawton, is it possible for you guys to have a mirror api web server before big updates? There's a plethora of websites which simply won't work without them, and while I sincerely understand shoot happens in live, it would be cool to have a backup of sorts... at least for static endpoints such as items, traits and skills. There's quite a lot of popular build websites which break without them.

Bump to this! ^Quite a few websites are basically unusable without this.Would be fabulous to have even an outdated mirror, until the new/fixed one kicks in.

@Vegeta.2563 said:

@cthos.3791 said:Hey, thanks for letting us know!

This exposed that I'm not properly handling the API being down in my app which I'm now fixing, and I don't know that I'd have properly caught it if the API didn't explode.

Good luck and remember to take breaks and stuff!:+1:

It's a mobile character viewer app for iOS. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gw2-assistant/id1206531672?ls=1&mt=8

I open sourced the v1 of it since I'm about 95% done updating the whole thing to Ionic 3, but I don't really have a lot of time to work on it. :/

v1 source is here: https://github.com/cthos/gw2-ionic

@Valento.9852 said:Lawton, is it possible for you guys to have a mirror api web server before big updates? There's a plethora of websites which simply won't work without them, and while I sincerely understand shoot happens in live, it would be cool to have a backup of sorts... at least for static endpoints such as items, traits and skills. There's quite a lot of popular build websites which break without them.

A better solution would be to have some local cache in the API-client for the data that the API-client wants to serve offline (when the API is not responding). An API-client/website should always be prepared that API-calls do not work.

@Lawton Campbell.8517 said:I broke stuff. Temporarily turned off all of the APIs while I sort out some crashing backend server. Planning on turning it back on todayMonday with some endpoints disabled (/v2/colors and the corresponding /v1 endpoint, at least). Sorry about the mess.

How's it going? Are you on track to have the API back online today?

I'm about to sacrifice a goat for the API gods, please hurry.. I love that goat.

I was told tacos are needed to get the API up again.

please fix this now !!

I wanted to add my voice and say, I too would love a backup api to act as a placeholder snapshot before big releases.

Hi ArenaNet, I am witcher.3197's goat. Please fix the API.

Was wondering if there was any update on if you're still planning to make the API available at some point today?

@atd.9348 said:Hi ArenaNet, I am witcher.3197's goat. Please fix the API.I'm the knife....I still agree please fix the API!

Is this even being worked on? Will we get an update on this or do I have to call animal rescue?

"He's dead, Jim."

It's up :+1: !!!

Don't know if everything is fixed but traits etc seems to be workind at the moment from what I see on metabattle.