RFA batch request

Haribabu_annem

If RFA sends batch request to the ADS. Will ADS respond back with a batch response?

My Question is :

What is the ADS response for a batch request?

if it is a batch request, Will RFA receive a batch response or individual responses from ADS?

umer.nalla

@Haribabu_annem

With regards to your points about Batched responses, suppose you make a Batch request for 100 items, as mentioned above RFA operates on the principal of creating unique event streams for each instrument requested. This makes sense because:

1. Instruments can update totally independently of each other
2. Instruments can update different rates to each other e.g. a highly traded instrument could update several times a second whereas another instrument may only update every few minutes

In view of the above it would not really make sense for the server to send batch responses when dealing with real time financial data.

moragodkrit.chumsri_1

@Haribabu_annem

RFA will receive an individual responses from ADS.

Basically Batch requests can improve performance by reducing the number of messages sent from the consumer application.
So an application can specify interest in multiple items via an item name list in a single request message. As a result of this message, an RFA consumer will receive a response from RFA comprised of multiple, fully-functional, independent item streams—one for each item specified in the item name list of the Batch request message.

For RFA C++, you can find the example codes from StarterConsumer_BatchView. The example create data structure(list of item Info etc) to keep item name and handle and then check the response from ADS to find the handle and add individual handle for each item to the data structure.

Haribabu_annem

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/9377#Comment_9377

So can we conclude that from RFA8 documentatin or from your response the following statements:

1. ADS will not support batching features.
2. Even though we give batch request to ADS, it gives you back responses for each and every item individually , it will never give you batch response.

Haribabu_annem

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/9402#Comment_9402

Whatever you said is valid and makes sense if it is a streaming request and receiving subsequent updates for a list of given instrument.

suppose you make non-streaming batch request for 100 items to ADS. Will ADS give back one singe batch response of 100 items? In this case it is non streaming request, so it doesn't need updates and the data stream will be closed after the request is fulfilled.

umer.nalla

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/9402#Comment_9402

No, making a batch request for 100 snapshot items will still result in 100 individual snapshot responses. This is because RFA operates on the concept of unique streams for each instrument and whether the request is streaming or snapshot is merely the interaction type specified on the request.

Implementing Batch responses would require some means of decoding the individual responses from a single event/message payload - An additional complication.

Also, some items may be rejected and some could be served quicker than others because they are already in the ADS cache.

Jirapongse

https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/9401#Comment_9401

1. Yes, currently, ADS supports batch request. It doesn't support batch response.

2. Correct. RFA will receive an individual response (stream) from ADS for each item.