[aerogear-dev] paging: different client platforms

[Douglas Campos]

What about returning a PagedList<T> (and using guava's ForwardingWhatever to decorate the list with the paging info)?

On 11/01/2013, at 14:14, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> On 01/11/2013 07:46 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>> Of course, sending simple request parameters to the server is easy, in
>> every library
>> 
>> (using Dan's CURL client example)
>> 
>> ```
>> URL=
>> "http://controllerdemo-danbev.rhcloud.com/aerogear-controller-demo"
>> 
>> curl -i --header "Accept: application/json" "$URL/cars?page=0&perPage=4"
>> ```
>> 
>> In terms of an client API, that wants to scroll through the cars (like
>> in this demo), I was wondering if some "PagingContext" (or
>> "ResultSet") API is needed...
>> 
>> // issues a request with ?page=0&perPage=4
>> PagingContext pc = client.request(someCars...);
>> 
>> // issues a request with ?page=0&perPage=4
>> pc.next()
>> 
>> // issues a request with ?page=1&perPage=4
>> pc.next()
>> 
>> // issues a request with ?page=0&perPage=4
>> pc.back()
>> 
>> 
>> NOT sure, but IMO a little higher level abstraction would be nice,
>> instead of having the end users of the "paging API" applying the
>> values for 'page' and 'perPage' manually.
>> 
>> Any thoughts? (Not sure if this has been brought up before)
>> 
>> -M
>> 
> +1 for a higher level abstraction
> 
> As far as how it will mesh with Pipe and such I am thinking
> 
> https://gist.github.com/4511860
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Matthias Wessendorf 
>> <matzew at apache.org>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> was there already some discussion (and proposal) for paging APIs on the client ?
>>> 
>>> It would be nice if the public client API semantics are somewhat
>>> identical on the different platforms.
>>> (I guess it's a MUST :))
>>> 
>>> Any pointers to gists etc are welcome
>>> 
>>> Thx
>>> 
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>>> Matthias Wessendorf
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>> 
>> 
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