What the data for this category looks like
Normally, production ledger data for mold design and manufacturing comes from customer product models, mold flow or forming simulation files, CAD/CAM exported drawings, machining and measurement records, inspection reports for trial mold samples, and more. Daily documents include mold design task sheets, DFM reports, part machining process cards, trial mold reports, mold modification notices, mold histories, and other related materials. Fields covered include mold number, project number, machining process, trial mold count, defect type, mold modification records, and others. Units include millimeters, hours, counts, and more. Data updates align with project progress; new ledger content is generated after each trial mold or mold modification, with no fixed update cycle.
What constraints these characteristics impose on HTTP interfaces and external systems
Because data sources are diverse and formats vary significantly, interfaces must adapt to upload or pull requirements for multiple document types, to avoid data loss caused by format incompatibility. Data updates have no fixed cycle and may be triggered temporarily, so interfaces need to support both on-demand pull and real-time push synchronization modes, to accommodate emergency ledger updates after mold modifications or trial molds. Ledger fields include many business-specific identifiers, so the interface request body must strictly match preset fields, otherwise accurate summary reports cannot be generated. A single project’s ledger may include a large number of documents, so the interface needs reasonable concurrent processing capabilities, to avoid timeouts or data truncation caused by request overload.
How to configure the settings
| Configuration Item | Recommended Setting | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Authorization | Bearer {Enterprise-specific API key} | Complies with HTTP interface authentication standards to ensure external system access permissions are controllable |
| Maximum number of documents per single request | Top 10 entries | Adapts to the typical volume of documents in a single project’s mold ledger, to avoid request timeouts |
| Request timeout | 600 seconds | Reserves sufficient time for time-consuming operations such as CAD file parsing and simulation data summarization |
| variables | Pass custom fields such as mold number, project cycle, trial mold times | Matches core business fields for mold design and manufacturing, to ensure the accuracy of summary report content |
| responseData | Return binary streams of ledger JSON and report PDF | Meets the requirement for external systems to directly store or display generated results |
| Maximum response data size | 1000 MB | Adapts to ledger summary data containing multiple large CAD files, to avoid response truncation |
Three common mistakes
- Phenomenon: An HTTP interface call returns a 400 status code with no response body. Cause: The request body does not include the core business fields required by the
variablesconfiguration item, or theAuthorizationparameter format is not set correctly. - Phenomenon: The generated report lacks trial mold defects or mold modification records. Cause: The associated document IDs of corresponding trial mold reports or mold modification notices are not included in the interface request, resulting in incomplete ledger data.
- Phenomenon: Interface requests frequently time out. Cause: The maximum number of documents configured for a single request is too high, exceeding the system’s processing capacity, or the request timeout setting is too short.
How to confirm the configuration is correct
- Send a test request that includes a valid mold number and trial mold count, check whether
Authorizationauthentication passes, and confirm that a normal response body is returned. - Review the content returned in
responseData, confirm that it includes associated data for specified documents such as mold design task sheets and trial mold reports. - Simulate ledger update requests after multiple mold modifications, confirm that the interface can correctly receive incremental data and generate corresponding summary reports.
- Confirm that FastGPT v4.17.0 is currently in use, check the interface logs to confirm that request parameters fully match the configuration items.
The values provided here are common starting points and should be evaluated against the reader's own samples.