Count of messages?

[burkgar]

Is there a way to get a count of messages within a folder / count of messages returned by a query? I can't seem to find any info on this.

Note: I realize you can convert the generator object to a list and get a count of the list - just wanted to see if there is a better way to get the count.

[alejcas]

Folder.total_items_count

Just look a bit into de code.

[burkgar]

Thank you for the response. Funny enough I figured it out the day before your post! I also added a quick and dirty method to my mailbox.py file that allows for a count of items returned by a query but it probably needs to be cleaned up.

`def get_message_counts(self, limit=25, *, query=None, order_by=None, batch=None,
download_attachments=False):
"""
Counts messages from this folder

    :param int limit: limits the result set. Over 999 uses batch.
    :param query: applies a filter to the request such as
     "displayName eq 'HelloFolder'"
    :type query: Query or str
    :param order_by: orders the result set based on this condition
    :type order_by: Query or str
    :param int batch: batch size, retrieves items in
     batches allowing to retrieve more items than the limit.
    :param bool download_attachments: whether or not to download attachments
    :return: list of messages
    :rtype: list[Message] or Pagination
    """

    if self.root:
        url = self.build_url(self._endpoints.get('root_messages'))
    else:
        url = self.build_url(self._endpoints.get('folder_messages').format(
            id=self.folder_id))

    if not batch and (limit is None or limit > self.protocol.max_top_value):
        batch = self.protocol.max_top_value

    params = {'$top': batch if batch else limit}

    if query:
        if isinstance(query, str):
            params['$filter'] = query
        else:
            params.update(query.as_params())

    params['$count'] = str('true')
    response = self.con.get(url, params=params)
    if not response:
        return str('No response or bad response.')

    counts = response.json()
    
    return counts['@odata.count']`

[alejcas]

If you just want to count better use a query.select to reduce the size of the query

[burkgar]

Thank you for the tip - anywhere I can find more info on query.select?

[alejcas]

Look at the code. Utils.py i think