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

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:

>
> 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 :)
>

exactly, quite handy




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