api_application.getid()

What is the relationship between the number returned via api_application.getid and the number I see in the URL when calling the app in the browser?

At the moment, I have an app making a call to this API function but the number returned is completely different to that in the URL.... had thought they would be the same?

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api_application application_id getid

asked 05 Aug '15, 02:21

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Hi Simon,

This function returns the ID of the current application instance it is being executed in. We usually refer to it as the application session id. The naming of this API function is not particularly great. I guess the reason we simply called the function getID but not the getInstanceID is that virtually all procedures and functions in the api_application package are about the instance of the application that is currently running. So the word "instance" is kind of redundant. API_APPLICATION is not about the meta data of the application but the run time properties of the instance of an application.

Kind Regards,
Yalim

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answered 05 Aug '15, 06:36

Yalim Gerger ♦♦
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0	ah... makes sense. other than parsing the url is there any way to get the id of the current application as it appears in the URL? link answered 05 Aug '15, 07:07 apacheuk 139●2●20 accept rate: 0%

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