Looping through multiple pages of a JSON request (Guzzle, Laravel, PHP) - php

Question

New dev here so I am sorry if this is a simple question or something like that but haven't been able to find exactly what I am looking for (it totally could be that I am not asking the question correctly either) Basically I have a paginated list coming back from an api and I am not sure what the logic would be to be able to cycle through those pages. Here is the code that I have so far that works perfectly for the first page lol.
public function handle()
{
//This is the artisan command that runs on a timer and gets all the ticket and update fields that are needed and saves them to the database.
$tickets = $this->pullTicketSummary();
collect($tickets['data'])
->each(function ($currTicket) {
$ticketRow = Tickets::query()->firstOrCreate(['ticket_id' => $currTicket['id']]);
$ticketRow->status_id = $currTicket['status']['id'];
$ticketRow->category_id = $currTicket['category']['id'];
$ticketRow->user_id = $currTicket['assigned_to']['id'];
$ticketRow->jira_issue_id = $currTicket['jira_issue_id'];
$ticketRow->save();
collect($currTicket['updates'])->each(function ($update) use ($currTicket){
$updateRow = Update::query()->firstOrCreate(['update_id' => $update['update_id']]);
$updateRow->ticket_id = $currTicket['id'];
$updateRow->assignee_change = $update['assignee_change'];
});
});
Log::info('All tickets and updates were pulled successfully');
}
protected function pullTicketSummary()
{ //Function makes the guzzle request and returns the response from the happyfox api
$client = new Client();
$request = $client->get('https://happyfox.com/api/1.1/json/tickets/?size=50&page=1',
['auth' => ['N/A']);
$response = json_decode($request->getBody()->getContents(), true);
return $response;
}
With the fact that I am new if this is something that has been answered before that I missed please just shoot me over a link or if you are aware of any documentation that would help me get to the answer on my own that would be awesome! thanks!

Answer 1

Update your function to use the page number:
protected function pullTicketSummary($page)
{ //Function makes the guzzle request and returns the response from the happyfox api
$client = new Client();
$request = $client->get('https://happyfox.com/api/1.1/json/tickets/?size=50&page='.$page,
['auth' => ['N/A']);
$response = json_decode($request->getBody()->getContents(), true);
return $response;
}
//new function only to save the data from tickets variable. Necessary to reuse.
public function saveTicketsOrSomething($tickets)
{
collect($tickets['data'])
->each(function ($currTicket) {
$ticketRow = Tickets::query()->firstOrCreate(['ticket_id' => $currTicket['id']]);
$ticketRow->status_id = $currTicket['status']['id'];
$ticketRow->category_id = $currTicket['category']['id'];
$ticketRow->user_id = $currTicket['assigned_to']['id'];
$ticketRow->jira_issue_id = $currTicket['jira_issue_id'];
$ticketRow->save();
collect($currTicket['updates'])->each(function ($update) use ($currTicket){
$updateRow = Update::query()->firstOrCreate(['update_id' => $update['update_id']]);
$updateRow->ticket_id = $currTicket['id'];
$updateRow->assignee_change = $update['assignee_change'];
});
});
}
Then iterate until you finish all the pages:
$tickets = $this->pullTicketSummary(1); //first time
$numPages = $tickets['numPages']; //update here to get the actual value of number of pages
$this->saveTicketsOrSomething($tickets);
for ($i = 2; $i < $numPages; $i++) { //start on 2, cause we already have fetched page 1
$tickets = $this->pullTicketSummary($i); //other pages
$this->saveTicketsOrSomething($tickets);
}
Log::info('All tickets and updates were pulled successfully');