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hey I am makig a POST request to the below api to execute a query and get results.

https://{my-domain}/api/queries/{query-id}/results?api_key={my-api-key}.

As per the documentation when I dont pass in the max_age key to the API request, the api should ideally start a new execution task and return me the execution job id. which i can futher pass to the API /api/jobs/<job_id>.

However, making the first POST request to /api/queries/{query-id}/results the Redash API without the max_age key, I directly get the query results almost instantly. As per the documentation i believe it should return me with an execution job id.

Is there any thing I am missing inorder to get the execution jobid ?

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I think you have it reversed. The api tries to return a cached result unless you explicitly pass max_age=0.

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I had the same issue. I already POST to https://{my-domain}/api/queries/{query-id}/results?max_age=0 and still get the cached result everytime

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It belongs in the body of your HTTP request, not the query string.

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yes, you need to send the parameter in the body and not in the query string itself.

hey @k4s1m, can we change the text of the api user guide?

" If max_age is omitted or 0 a new execution will begin and a query execution task (job) will be returned"

it says if we omit the max_age parameter in the request a new task id will be returned, but actually the api does require us to pass in max_age=0 for it to return task id.

also, my query is answered. we can mark this as solved.

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