Database API get_account add follower/following count

[bonustrack]

Is that possible that the method "get_account" from the database API return following_count and follower_count? Actually to get this information it require multiple get_followers requests, it retrieve followers 100 by 100 but not seem to be scalable solution to get the follower/following count.

[svk31]

v0.16.0 introduced a new method get_follow_count that gives you the number of followers/following directly for a given account.

steem/libraries/plugins/follow/include/steemit/follow/follow_api.hpp

Line 91 in 5b8f699

follow_count_api_obj get_follow_count( string account )const;

[bonustrack]

Amazing! Thank you Sigve!

I think we would also need a method has_follow. If we dont want to do a get_follower loop to know if you've already followed someone or not.

[svk31]

No problem. I believe there are plans to address things like getting follower data, but at least with this new method you can delay fetching all the followers until actually needed, and has_follow you can do by simply calling get_followers/get_following with the account in question.