in my extension i'm trying to get the information of master item, I can correctly get what i want but it is a bit slow. given i'm more interested in things like id, title, calculation condition and other metadata more then actual data at this point, I was wondering if there is a way to get the layout of an object without the data page in the hyper cube to speed up the process?
At least some of that information you can get through the properties instead. Would that be an option for you?
Otherwise, in my experience calculating the data page is typically not the most expensive part. The headers and cube size and things like that are typically what is most computationally expensive because they need the data of the full table. There is no way to compute only parts of a layout, but one option is to take the things you are interested in (the expression for the title and calculation condition for instance) and put them in a the properties of a session object and then get the layout for that instead.
