[aerogear-dev] paging: different client platforms

Summers Pittman supittma at redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 12:06:01 EST 2013


On 01/11/2013 11:55 AM, Douglas Campos wrote:
> What about returning a PagedList<T> (and using guava's ForwardingWhatever to decorate the list with the paging info)?
So something like PagedListExample?
https://gist.github.com/d835d4a56d4d25e4ca9a
> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>
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