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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"SL-API issue pagination of virtual machines with masks","articleBody":"The issue we're facing is to retrieve the relational properties of a list of SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest using pagination. We use masks to get the relational properties like power state, os, datacenter data etc.... of a virtual machine as there are many vms in a particular account the api throws an out of memory error, the service.getObject method ignores pagination, so I used service.getVirtualGuests() which the pagination works but only brings the local properties of the vm, if I put a mask to get the relational properties in the service, service.getVirtualGuests() thows another error, one way I found to do this is use service.getVirtualGuests() to get the basic info and then use Guest.Service virtualGuestsService = Guest.service(client, guest.getId()); with a mask to get the relational properties for each vm in a loop, but this will generate thousands of api calls, so Im not sure if this is the best/correct approach, the best would be if I could use service.getVirtualGuests() with the mask to get the relational properties, attached is a sample code.\r\n[vm-pagination.txt](https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-java/files/2013701/vm-pagination.txt)\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/isrfig","@type":"Person","name":"isrfig"},"datePublished":"2018-05-17T15:03:20.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/52/softlayer-java/issues/52"}