Azure Storage Table returning empty entities

I have the following Python code:

def GetData(tableService, tableName, dataFilter):
    keyMarkers = {}
    keyMarkers['nextpartitionkey'] = 0
    keyMarkers['nextrowkey'] = 0
    b=[]
    while True:
        #get a batch of data
        a = tableService.query_entities(table_name=tableName, filter=dataFilter,num_results=1000 ,marker=keyMarkers)
        #copy results to list
        for item in a.items:
            b.append(item.amount.value)
        #check to see if more data is available
        if len(a.next_marker) == 0:
            del a
            break
        #if more data available setup current position
        keyMarkers['nextpartitionkey'] = a.next_marker['nextpartitionkey']
        keyMarkers['nextrowkey'] = a.next_marker['nextrowkey']
        #house keep temp storage
        del a
    #return final list
    return b

It is working, however, for the first results, a.items comes empty. After 10 queries, it finally starts returning some data. It is like the table has no rows for the values I queried. I know it has, and it eventually comes. But only after returning too many empty results.

I have a PHP code for the same purpose, but it doesn’t get empty entities. So I don’t think this is a common behavior from Azure. Maybe the way its SDK for Python works?

Answer

On the very first request, can you try passing in ‘None’ for the marker, rather than a dictionary with 0 and 0 for nextpk / nextrk? I’m not sure, but this might be confusing the service into searching for a table entity with this pk & rk.

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