[aerogear-dev] Query/Paging Brainstorm

[Lucas Holmquist]

The way github does paging looks nice,  

http://developer.github.com/v3/#pagination

On Oct 31, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Jay Balunas <jbalunas at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Douglas Campos <qmx at qmx.me> wrote:
>>> Howdy!
>>> 
>>> As we discussed on our team meeting today, having basic query and pagination support would be cool.
>>> 
>>> Here are some suggestions, gathered from previous conversations around the topic, and from some BaaS providers in the wild.
>>> 
>>> Paging:
>>> 
>>> 1) /cars/?limit=10&offset=3
>>> 2) /cars/?limit=10&skip=3
> 
> Is the skip the number of pages, or the literal item count to start on?
> 
> Also, we would want a way to get back a total #, and page #'s give a page size.  This may be a separate call - wdyt?
> 
>>> 
>>> Query:
>>> 
>>> 1) /cars/query?color=blue
>>> 2) /cars/?query={"color":"red", "owner":"summers"}
>>> 3) /cars/?where={"brand":"BMW"}
>>> 4) /cars/?query={"engine":{"cylinders": 8}}
>>> 5) /cars/?query={"engine":{"cylinders":{"$gt":6}}}
>>> 
>>> This is not set into stone, just ideas,
>> 
>> I guess it's a matter of agreeing :) the main work is on the "ag
>> server component".
>> 
>> Question.... do we want to keep it flexible? E.g. if AG clients are
>> used for a backend that does not use "limit" for the pagination?
>> (I guess kinda similar to what we have on the endpoints, where you can
>> override the default)
>> 
> 
> Where would you override this?  In the pipeline creation?
> 
> Also, and opinions on using matrix parameters instead of query parameters?  For now we would need to combine with #PathParam & PathSegments.  See http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/3.0-beta-1/userguide/html_single/index.html#_PathParam_and_PathSegment for details.
> 
> This would allow future nesting of queries.
> 
>> 
>>> and I do think that anything above exact matches should go after 1.0
>> 
>> fine w/ me
> 
> +1
> 
>> 
>> -M
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> -- qmx
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>> 
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