Access test data source from task

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I'm like to use a background task to migrate data from the live data source to the test data source. Is it possible to access both data sources from a single task?

Thanks!

Jonathan

Sean Montgomery

Currently data sources are completely isolated environments that are chosen at the beginning of the API/Task processing.

So while it may not be currently possible to have a single endpoint interact with both environments directly, it would be possible to have that same single endpoint call its own Xano API through the API Request statement. This way you could interact with both. You can change the datasource through a HTTP Header or a GET argument - https://docs.xano.com/database/data-sources#how-to-use-the-test-data-source-with-your-api-requests 

Unknown

Ok, thanks! I'll give that a try. 

Unknown

 Hmm. I tried this, and the "data source" selector doesn't seem to be working. Even though it shows "test" in the task banner, when I run the task, it ends up creating data in the production data source. Any idea what might be wrong?

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Sean Montgomery

 a little difficult to see what you are trying to do here.

We have an office hours coming up in the next hour - if you are available we can look through it.

calendly.com/xano/officehours

Michael Udinski

 here's a tutorial on how you would accomplish this in case you still need to see an example:


Unknown

Oh cool! Thanks!