This function provides detailed information about the deliveries associated with specific jobs.
The JobDetail and JobDeliveryStatus functions largely provide access to the same information, and users should consider which is best for their purpose. JobDeliveryStatus may be simpler to program for, since it does not require parsing CSV lines and matching column headers and values. However, JobDeliveryStatus will return many data fields that may not be of interest to the user, and the XML format may result in very large result documents. JobDeliveryStatus allows for data for more than one job to be requested, while JobDetail only allows for one job at a time (although even JobDeliveryStatus requests should be limited to no more than a few jobs at a time) The JobDetail function uses a more compact format and provides better control over the data fields that are returned, and also offers better "chunking" capabilities which can help limit the size of result documents. Additionally, only JobDetail provides access to individual delivery attempt information for the same item (although this information is only available for users and jobs with appropriate settings.) |