Limit On Close Bets

[monkeymagix]

Hi

It might just be that it's because I've just come back from the Pub for lunch or the pain killers I am taking for my Kidney Stones but my head is slightly muddled.

I have a BOT (using the old SOAP API C# if anyone has an example of a way to rewrite methods like placebet, getmarketId, cancel, withdraw etc etc in the new JSON version then please let me know as I need to rewrite my code at some stage)

Anyway I have some bets that I only want to place if they have a price of 3.0 or above at race off time.

I am getting my head confused around the settings as I set my bet up to have a persistence type of SP (which I need to change) and then place it on the exchange with a desired price of 3.0 or 3.5 or whatever.

If its not matched then it takes the SP which could obviously be below 3.0 e.g 1.10 or 2.40 or whatever - which I don't want. I only want the bet taken if the price is 3.0 or above.

So my current code is (simplified)

BFUK.PlaceBets Bet = new BFUK.PlaceBets();

Bet.betCategoryType = BFUK.BetCategoryTypeEnum.E; // use exchange
Bet.betPersistenceType = BFUK.BetPersistenceTypeEnum.SP; // convert to SP if not matched before race
Bet.betType = BFUK.BetTypeEnum.B; // back
Bets.price = 3.00; //  price I want

Which I take is wrong as it would mean a bet I wanted to place at 3.50 would be converted to SP and placed even if the SP price was 1.05??

What would the settings be if I wanted to use limit on close e.g only convert the bet to an SP bet IF the SP price was 3.00 OR above at in-play.

Would it be this?

BFUK.PlaceBets Bet = new BFUK.PlaceBets();

Bet.betCategoryType = BFUK.BetCategoryTypeEnum.L; // limit on close
Bet.betPersistenceType = BFUK.BetPersistenceTypeEnum.NONE; // already SP bet so no need to persist ??
Bet.betType = BFUK.BetTypeEnum.B; // back
Bets.price = 3.00; //  price I want

Which means that because the Category Type is NOT the exchange e.g L (limit on close)

and betPersistenceType = NONE (as its already an SP bet)

then the bet will only get converted to an SP bet IF the price was 3.00 or above at in-play?

If not it would get LAPSED.

Can someone just confirm this so I am clear in my head I am doing the right thing please.

Also any .NET C# versions using JSON would be great so I can get a working API class up and running using the new API.

Thanks

[monkeymagix]

I am getting errors with Limit on close

After the code example I wrote the other day I am now getting INTERNAL_ERROR
errors when trying to place the bet (when the Response header gets checked) e.g

CheckHeader(PlaceBetsResp.header);

which calls this function that checks the header for any errors and returns the INTERNAL_ERROR message.

public void CheckHeader(BFUK.APIResponseHeader Header)
{ 

    APIHeaderGL.sessionToken = Header.sessionToken;

    // set flag so other calls know if we had an issue
    this.ThrottleLimitError = false;

    // if we have broken the API request limit wait until the next minute when it gets reset
    if (Header.errorCode.ToString() == "EXCEEDED_THROTTLE")
    {
	
	// kill ourself as using a thread to wait until the next minute seems to destroy all our objects and then
	// we end up doing stupid things like cancelling markets that are still active. I don't know what is causing this
	// but it seems sensible to just DIE and then let the timer start a new job in X seconds or so and carry on with good object
	// references etc
	this.ThrottleLimitError = true;
	
	// wait X seconds
	this.BeatThrottleLimit();
	
	// kill all our objects - which might raise an error up to the top
	this.Dispose();

	// now set ourselves back up by re-creating the main API objects
	this.Setup();

	// point our API object back to our session
	this.SetSession();
    }
    else if (Header.errorCode.ToString() == "INTERNAL_ERROR")
    {
	// log my error to the log file
	HelperLib.LogMsg("Internal Error");
    }
}

Therefore I am guessing the code I posted yesterday isn't working?

Does anybody know what is wrong?