Hello everyone. I have just finished implementing a squad system using shared groups, but I am having a hard time keeping track of names I have used for testing. I set up the system to allow users to create their own squad by name and the corresponding group id is the name they have created.
Is there any way I can retrieve a list of all shared groups through an api call as I know this feature has not been implemented into the game manager as of now. Thanks to anyone that can help.
Getting the full list of all Shared Group Data objects for a game would be a very expensive operation, since it would be potentially millions of objects. The idea is that titles should be using well-defined patterns for IDs (like PlayFab ID + a game ID which they store in Player Data), though one other notion is that you could use a "master index" system in Player Data to store the list of Shared Group Data objects a player needs to know about.
Alternately, there is an item in our Feature Requests forum for a way to list all the Shared Group Data objects associated with an individual user, here: https://community.playfab.com/content/idea/3726/get-shared-group-data-list-by-userid.html. We prioritize in part based upon how many of our developers needs a specific feature, so knowing that it would be useful to your titles would be good to know!
I think not having this ability to check for shared groups will end up in hidden lost data. Pragmatically I expect to have abandoned games, and I can't check if my cleanup of stale groupdata is working. I get your point about well defined patterns, so lets say I use playerID+PlayerGame#.. if the player is up to game 200 & I have to check and query to see if stale sharedgroups exist its 200 queries, rather than one query and then act on the returned list..
That's why I recommend having a "master index" as one key/value pair. Trying to make tons of calls from a single client quickly is pretty much guaranteed to result in that client being temporarily throttled - or even blocked by DDoS protections, if it's too excessive.
