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(a)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(a)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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