Level 56
I would do /api/categories?start=10&end=20 so you get a slice of your categories
Aug 19, 2015
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Level 3
REST API - Pagination best practice
Hi all,
Im working on a REST API and I have a question.
For example, I have an endpoint to get all categories: /api/categories
Can I use the same endpoint to get all categories but paginated? Im thinking on something like: /api/categories?paginated=true
But I dont know if there's a best practice to do this.
What do you think? If someone has a suggestion will be great.
Thanks in advance!
Level 3
@pmall So, if there's no "start" and "end" parameters I will get all categories without pagination? And if I have the parameters I get the list paginated?
Level 56
What you mean by list paginated ? Whay you want is a slice of articles from a page no ? you can also do /api/categories?page=2 so you get the second page categories
Level 54
This ought to work...
get('api/categories', function(\Illuminate\Http\Request $request) {
$num_per_page = 5;
if ($request->input('paged')) {
return App\Category::paginate($num_per_page)->appends('paged', $request->input('paged'));
}
return App\Category::all();
});
Note: The appends() method is necessary otherwise next/previous links generated by the pager won't include the flag to indicate results should be paged.
Level 1
use the paginate query builder and it will handel every thing in the query
Level 80
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