Hello I wonder what is the best/easiest way to get the number of active contracts for a particular template. Do we need to 1.write a grpc client (e.g. grpcurl) and get active contract set and increment the count for each contract? 2.use canton console participant.ledger_api.acs (the acs seems to …

3 is out for the reason you mentioned: The database should not be queried directly. 2 just calls the underlying gRPC internally so it’s just a variant of 1. So in the end, querying it via gRPC is your only (and therefore also the best :)) option. The ACS endpoint gives you a stream so your client …

Hi @cocreature thanks so much for the note! Just want to clarify about 2. Understood that it’s using GRPC under the hood, yet when I do participant.ledger_api.acs.of_party(myPartyId).length I get 1000, even if in the DB I have more than 10k active contracts. (guessing the sequence was initialise…

Yes that is expected. of_party takes a limit parameter which defaults to 1000. You can increase that if you want to get more.

Side note, as I don’t see it mentioned in this discussion: you can only get a count for the contracts of a particular template visible to a given Party (or possibly set of parties if you have a token with multiple parties). It’s probably obvious from context but I thought it was worth mentioning ex…

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[image] Judy_Wu: I wonder what is the best/easiest way to get the number of active contracts for a particular template. The PQS and Daml Shell can give you this information. (HT: @Drew_Harding )

Best way to get count of active contracts for a specific template

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