Issue with getAncestors depth

Question

If I try to `getAncestors` with `depth` set to 10 or lower, I get the correct number of ancestors, but if I set it to 11 or higher, I only get the same number of ancestors as if I had set it to 5.

An odd workaround is to first make the request with depth set to 1, then to 2, then 3, etc. up to 25, which will return the correct number of ancestors.

Obviously this is not the intended approach, so what's the acceptable way to actually use `getAncestors` with `depth` set to 25?

I'm trying to make a new app like DNAconf, but don't want to have to make 72 (24 x 3, since it's a triangulation app) superfluous API calls everytime it's used.

Comments

Hi Anonymous. Perhaps try getPeople instead? There may be an upper bound on the value of the "ancestors" parameter, but if so it isn't mentioned in the documentation.

Answer 1

The maximum depth is 10. Not sure why it isn't in the documentation. If you put a number larger than that, it uses the default (5).

getAncestors and getDescendents will eventually be replaced by getPeople (which also has a limit of 10).