API: /groups/:name query very slow for groups with many projects
Summary
API: /groups/:name query very slow for groups with many projects
Steps to reproduce
curl https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/groups/science-teamtakes ~40s. I suspect this is as it is a group with a very large number of projects (910 at the time of writing).
What is the current bug behavior?
The query takes 40s to return a result.
What is the expected correct behavior?
It should be faster.
Possible fixes
I suspect gathering the project information makes this query slow. Groups with several hundred projects are probably fairly uncommon, but Debian has several of them for packaging teams.
Possible fixes include:
- Implement an option to not return project details, but only group information. (I only wanted to get the group id from the name. No project details needed for this.)
- Make the query faster.
Ideally both would be implemented as expensive, unauthenticated queries could be used for denial of service.