[aerogear-dev] Specification for query RESTFul resources using offset, limit & total

[Summers Pittman]

On 01/14/2013 02:00 PM, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> Morning everybody.
>
> Daniel has already implemented a lot of cool stuff on AeroGear 
> controller for pagination. For this reason I created this Jira to see 
> if the implementation matches our expectations on the client side 
> (https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AEROGEAR-814).
>
> For example, currently the headers are returning something like it:
>
> HTTP/1.1  200  OK
> Content-Type:  application/json;charset=UTF-8
> Content-Length:  160
> AG-Paging-Offset:  0
> AG-Paging-Limit:  4
> AG-Paging-Total:  4
> AG-Links-Next:  cars?offset=1&limit=4
> AG-Links-Last:  cars?offset=3&limit=4
> [
>    {"color":"Green","brand":"Audi","id":1},
>    {"color":"White","brand":"Audi","id":2},
>    {"color":"Black","brand":"Audi","id":3},
>    {"color":"Black","brand":"BMW","id":4}
> ]
>
>
>         <https://gist.github.com/4500336#getting-the-next-page-of-cars>
>
>
> Question, do we really need AG-Links-Next and AG-Links-Last. If I know 
> about the total and I have the fields limit and offset, looks like 
> 'Next' and 'Last' are useless. Am I wrong? I was wondering about 
> something like this 
> http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Rest_api#Collection-resources-and-pagination
>
   I like them because it makes my life easier :)
>
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