Download counts do not appear for packages suggested by Package Recommender

[joelverhagen]

Details about Problem

NuGet product used: Visual Studio
Product version: 16.10.0, preview 2
Worked before? Version prior to package recommender

Repro steps and/or sample project

Open the Browse tab on the PM UI.
Ensure you have Package Recommender enabled (my understanding is that it's an A/B test, but I am not sure)

[joelverhagen]

Strangely, the download counts work for the V2 feed:
https://www.nuget.org/api/v2

[dominoFire]

@birgithi FYI

[zkat]

@jebriede can you please follow up with the package recommender team to see if this is even possible?

[nkolev92]

@chgill-MSFT @jebriede

Can you please define the expected behavior.
Is this still something we care about?

[stamminator]

Looks like the "over one billion" issue again: #10864. Maybe a regression caused by NuGet/NuGet.Client#4255.

[nkolev92]

@stamminator

Shouldn't be related to that.
The gist is that the download counts are only available through the search server side API and NuGet does not call that right now, as it'd require it to call it for every individual package.

[stamminator]

@nkolev92 Seems like an awful coincidence though that in both cases, it seems to be related to hitting the 1 billion figure.

[nkolev92]

@stamminator

In this the download counts are not getting display for any of the recommended packages.
If you look at your screenshot, you'll notice that none of the packages with a 'star' have a download count.